magnetic tape
noun
: a thin ribbon (as of plastic) coated with a magnetic material on which information (such as sound or television images) may be stored
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In addition to HDDs and SSDs, magnetic tape also serves an important role in larger enterprise backup and archiving applications.
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Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Companies that wish to store huge amounts of data do have other options, but hard drives are still the go-to choice for enterprise storage needs that fall somewhere between faster, more expensive solid-state drives built on flash memory, and slower, cheaper magnetic tape.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Jan. 2019
Bob Fine, Senior Analyst Relations Manager of the LTO Program at Quantum gave more insight on the history and uses of magnetic tape for backups.
—Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
But a year’s worth of humanity’s data, on modern-day magnetic tape, would fill thirty thousand shipping containers.
—Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2025
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Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Companies that wish to store huge amounts of data do have other options, but hard drives are still the go-to choice for enterprise storage needs that fall somewhere between faster, more expensive solid-state drives built on flash memory, and slower, cheaper magnetic tape.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Jan. 2019
Bob Fine, Senior Analyst Relations Manager of the LTO Program at Quantum gave more insight on the history and uses of magnetic tape for backups.
—Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
But a year’s worth of humanity’s data, on modern-day magnetic tape, would fill thirty thousand shipping containers.
—Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Magnetic tape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/magnetic%20tape. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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