If you think of a 1960s mainframe computer, it’s likely that your mental image includes alongside the cabinets with the blinkenlights, a row of reel-to-reel tape drives. These refrigerator-sized units ...

This metal object is the read-write head from the UNISERVERO VI-C tape drive (part of the UNIVAC 9400). A mark on a sticker on one side reads; 503648-00. Another mark on another sticker on this side ...

Ahh yes... the proverbial "cover your butt" of the home and enterprise computer user, the tape backup drive. I know what you are thinking. You're thinking "I don't ...

Back in the day: Consumers stopped using magnetic tape storage so long ago that many reading this are likely too young to know what it is. However, its ability to store massive amounts of data on ...

Magnetic storage is quickly becoming an antiquated technology but IBM may have given it a few more years. Currently, magnetic storage is still manufactured as hard disk drives (HDDs) but you won’t ...

I recently uncovered an old computer sitting around with a tape drive labeled "Colorado 250MB". I fished it out, and found a serial number, but could not find a webpage for any hardware company named ...

I have an HP Dat 72 tape drive in my SQL server and the tape WILL NOT EJECT.<BR><BR>My backups have been failing because of this.<BR><BR>SQL Server can't read the drive as it times out, so I tried ...

Suppose for a moment that a virus has infected your entire computer network. It has quickly spread through every employee’s workstation, into every document and database file. All your work, all your ...

Storage Technology Corp. next week plans to announce a new high-end disk array and the industry’s fastest, largest-capacity tape drive, capable of holding 200GB of data with transfer rates of 30MB/sec ...