I recently uncovered an old computer sitting around with a tape drive labeled "Colorado 250MB". I fished it out, and found a serial number, but could not find a webpage for any hardware company named ...

With ever-expanding amounts of data to back up, it's good to see backup media are keeping pace. We take a look at four tape backup options with more than 200GB capacity per tape. The amount of data we ...

Suppose for a moment that a virus has infected your entire computer network. It has quickly spread through every employee’s workstation, into every document and database file. All your work, all your ...

Portable TapeStor Travan USB 2.0 bundled solutions are available with a 20 GB or 40 GB tape drive from Seagate Removable Storage Solutions, a manufacturer of computer tape drive and tape head products ...

Taking on a refrigerator-sized minicomputer is not for the faint-hearted, but [Usagi Electric] has done it with a DEC PDP-11/44. He’s not doing it in half measures either, for his machine is tricked ...

Magnetic tape is seeing something of a revival as a storage medium. The need to protect data against malware, as well as renewed interest in disaster recovery and business continuity, have put tape ...

With all the chaos going on these days with breaches left right and center, I'm resurrecting my old LTO-2 tape drive (UW SCSI 68-pin D connector). Now, for a long time, I've been wondering if I could ...

Back in the day: Consumers stopped using magnetic tape storage so long ago that many reading this are likely too young to know what it is. However, its ability to store massive amounts of data on ...

The computer's storage media prior to solid state drives (SSDs). Magnetic tape and disks were developed in the 1950s and commonly used together in companies for decades. Tape was the primary medium ...

Oracle is taking aim at the fast-growing storage demands of large enterprises with the latest version of its high-end tape drive, which will be able to pack 5TB of uncompressed data onto a tape ...

IBM announced the general availability of the industry’s first magnetic tapes and drives based on the LTO-9 Ultrium specification for massive data capacity and resilience. The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) 9 ...

If you think of a 1960s mainframe computer, it’s likely that your mental image includes alongside the cabinets with the blinkenlights, a row of reel-to-reel tape drives. These refrigerator-sized units ...