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

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

Half a century later, despite the invention of solid-state hard drives, magnetic tape remains surprisingly well-used in ...

DOGE recently announced that it has replaced 14,000 magnetic storage tapes used by the US General Services Administration ...

Currently, magnetic storage is still manufactured as hard disk drives (HDDs) but you won’t find a tape drive in a modern consumer computer. That’s not likely to change but IBM is pushing the ...

In February 2025, Musk criticized a federal contract with Iron Mountain to store physical records, labeling it a "time warp" ...

A Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) social media post boasts of the elimination of tape data storage facilities at ...

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

The latest embodiment of his comic book fantasies (he described himself as "dark, gothic MAGA" in the run-up to the US ...

DOGE on Friday said the General Services Administration is saving $1 million by converting magnetic tapes to permanent modern ...

The first electronic storage medium, magnetic tape is made of flexible plastic with one side coated with a ferromagnetic material. The data are recorded as binary digits (bits) in the form of ...

A medium for holding information (data, voice, video, etc.), such as tape and disk. The medium can be erased and reused over and over again. In the digital world, information is recorded by ...