you might still have some Michael Jackson or lead Zeppelin albums on
cassette tape lying around your house but chances are these days you're
listening to mp3s of Billy Jean or Stairway to Heaven instead but even
though Magnetic Tape has been long obsolete for music it's still going
strong for data storage wait a sec Luke
how is that even possible haven't modern ssds and hard drives displaced
everything else I mean even Optical discs are becoming a thing of the past
but believe it or not tape has some pretty significant advantages that have
made its popular storage medium last for over 60 years in fact the first tape
drive appeared all the way back in 1951 and had a name that made it sound
like something out of a Jetson's episode The Unis Servo this was actually the
tape drive that was used for the famous univac 1 the first ever commercial
computer built in the US the univac took up an entire room and not surprisingly
the Unis Servo was a behemoth as well
holding nearly a/4 mile of tape on large
reels but only about 225 kiloby of data later though tape
storage became more practical due to switching from heavy metal tapes to
plastic tape coated in magnetic substances that store the actual data
more advanced recording methods such as using the entire width of the tape to
increase data density helps bring capacities over the years to 10 terab
today in a package that weighs only half a pound but then then why don't we see
people using tape drives and personal rigs very often aside from the drives
being very expensive they also tend to be very slow think about how long it
took to rewind a tape from Blockbuster way back in the day when they were still
a thing unlike hard drives or ssds which can go directly to the data you want in
a small fraction of a second tape drives have to wind themselves back and forth
sequentially to access files meaning they're just too sluggish to use in
day-to-day computing but even though a tape storage solution requires a large
upfront cost for a drive the tape cartridges themselves are pretty darn
cheap compared to other forms of storage media and they tend to have great
longevity making tape a great choice for archival storage and data backups not
only is magnetic tape pretty Hardy but the fact that most organizations use it
strictly for backup and aren't constantly accessing their tape drives
mean that they're less prone to wearing out than something like a mechanical
hard drive which is constantly spinning shortening their lifespan and tape's
appeal for Mass backup storage doesn't appear to be going anywhere in fact Sony
recently developed a new type of tape that can hold
185 terabytes on a single cartridge so
if you miss your cassette collection from the 1980s you can always digitize
all 23 million of your songs and just stick them on one tape speaking of
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