In the 1980s and 1990s, small tape drives were used for desktop computer backup but were eclipsed by Zip disks and other magnetic media. After the turn of the century, optical media (CD-R ...

The most common types are CD, DVD and Blu-ray. As removable media, optical discs superseded the earlier magnetic disk cartridges because they weigh less, have higher capacities and are not subject ...

Recent announcements in magnetic tape and optical disc technology promise hefty storage media for future data archive applications. The LTO program announced its generation 14 with 576TB of native ...

Being an American company, IBM naturally landed on the "disk" spelling when creating HDDs. Rather than use an optical process for storage, this drive used magnetic tape to store its data.

Use less battery power - devices they are in stay charged for longer. Be more robust - a magnetic disk could be ruined by dropping it, because its moving parts may be damaged.

For most organizations that reach a certain size, standardized linear tape open (LTO) magnetic tape is ... on-premises disk storage, and optical media. Object storage is specifically designed ...

Scientists have developed a new type of optical disc that can increase information ... in a single dimension thanks to newly discovered magnetic switching Scientists create ultra-efficient ...