It is not clear how DOGE will save $1 million per year conventing from magnetic tape unless it is converting to more modern ...

What seems at first like a logical move to modernize the government's archives may in fact be an ill-advised decision.

The comment doesn’t include any context as to what tape technology was used (reel-to-reel or cartridge), how long it took to ...

But a year’s worth of humanity’s data, on modern-day magnetic tape, would fill thirty thousand shipping containers. Meanwhile, tapes and drives ... molecules of DNA could store up to a billion ...

We're always looking at new ways to safeguard data, and things have evolved over the decades to meet current storage demands.

Scientists have discovered a surprising magnetic spin phase where order and disorder mix, challenging old ideas.

London-based Magnetic ... tapes. But there was a problem, it turns out that the decaying tapes used a unstable polyurethane-based binder to stick the oxide material (which is what stores the data ...

A magnetic tape that was used to store data temporarily and later reused. In the 1950s and 1960s, prior to disk drives becoming abundant, tapes were the only storage medium other than punch cards.

In February 2025, Musk criticized a federal contract with Iron Mountain to store physical records, labeling it a "time warp" and adding: "The speed at which the mineshaft elevator can move determines ...