HDD shipping capacity and revenue are projected to be over 6.5EB and between $25B and $35B by 2030. We project magnetic tape will ship over 400EB by 2030.

The Massachusetts-based DATAmatic Division of Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company sold one of its room-sized DATAmatic 1000 systems to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, where it was installed ...

The 50s called and they want their tapes back. Forget crystals, holograms, or even DNA. The storage solution of the future might come from the pass. And that's not an exaggeration either. Sony and IBM ...

The amount of data you can squeeze onto a hard drive continues to grow by leaps and bounds, with Seagate announcing a 60TB SSD late last year. But thanks to IBM and Sony, tape might still reign ...

Magnetic tape storage media with a maximum storage capacity of 100TB (compressed) per cartridge, approximately 33 percent ...

Huawei is developing a hybrid storage called Magneto-electric Disk (MED) that incorporates SSD and magnetic tape. The first version of MED is scheduled to appear in 2025. When we hear the word ...

LTO’s 40TB cartridge pushes tape storage into the AI-driven future Aramid film gives magnetic tape the strength to expand its lifespan Magnetic tape storage remains the cheapest offline safeguard for ...

Wait a moment — have I stepped into a time machine? We all know that magnetic tape is so….yesterday. Isn’t all storage these days on solid-state or hard-disk drive (HDD) memory? The answer is yes, it ...

Magnetic tape storage is something many of us will associate with 8-bit microcomputers or 1960s mainframe computers, but it still has a place in the modern data center for long-term backups. It’s ...

The tech world (and let’s be totally honest, tech journalists) have a recency bias — a type of cognitive skew that places greater importance on whatever is shiny and new. And the temptation is often ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. For several years I have written a series of articles outlining my projections for various digital storage and non-volatile memory ...