In their push to change the way corporate data centers back up their data, the vendors often leave in their wake confusion as to the viability of hard disk as a tape substitute. >> A new ...

Magnetic tape and disks were developed in the 1950s and commonly used together in companies for decades. Tape was the primary medium because early data processing was sequential. Files were ...

SAS data sets in tape format cannot be accessed randomly with the POINT= and NOBS= variables in the SET statement. There are no facilities to rename SAS files in tape format. Whether you are using ...

One alternative is to back up data on disk, which is inherently faster than tape. Some users are taking an extra step by adding tape to the mix, creating disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backup systems.

Scientists have found a way to store hundreds of terabytes of data onto a tiny crystal, with plans to scale this up to a disc-sized device that can be compatible with modern computing.

New optical tech could slash archival costs by 10x or even more Optera Data’s discs could hit 10TB for just $1 - cheaper than tape! The low-power, high-density storage has data centers in mind A ...

Unless you handle the backups for a large corporation, bank, or government entity, you likely haven’t stored much data to tape recently. But magnetic storage used to be fairly mainstream back in ...

See LTO and open reel. Tape has always been more economical than disks for archival data; however, disk capacities have increased enormously while the cost per bit has been reduced dramatically.