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 ...

Portable TapeStor Travan USB 2.0 bundled solutions are available with a 20 GB or 40 GB tape drive from Seagate Removable Storage Solutions, a manufacturer of computer tape drive and tape head products ...

If you know how it feels to lose data, you know how important and worthwhile it is to perform backups. And if you’ve been lucky enough so far to never suffer preventable data loss, just the thought of ...

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 ...

With all the chaos going on these days with breaches left right and center, I'm resurrecting my old LTO-2 tape drive (UW SCSI 68-pin D connector). Now, for a long time, I've been wondering if I could ...

The computer's storage media prior to solid state drives (SSDs). Magnetic tape and disks were developed in the 1950s and commonly used together in companies for decades. Tape was the primary medium ...

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 ...