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Stories about: magnetic tape

New Magnetic Tape Cartridge Holds 35 Terabytes of Data Research scientists at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory announce the development of a new type of magnetic tape, one that is capable of storing data at a considerably higher density than any other, similar tape. Largely popular in the 1980s and 1990s for music storage, magnetic tapes have been replaced by CDs and D... 25 January 2010 05:05 GMT How Hard Drives Work Although computers don't absolutely require hard drives to work properly, almost everyone has at least a hard drive. Mainframes and servers may have several hundreds of such devices on which they store terabytes of information at a time. Before the appearance of hard drives, computers used magnetic tapes to stor... 5 April 2008 05:39 GMT