There have been a lot of different mass storage methods over the relatively short lifespan of the computer. Magnetic tapes, drums, all sorts of disks, and flash memory have each had their time.

Western Digital (WD) has shared a plan to increase HDD storage space, with the goal of releasing 40TB hard drives by the end ...

Although magnetic disk storage did not take hold until the end of the 1960s, IBM actually introduced the first disk-based computer in the mid-1950s. Although RAMAC (above) was direct access ...

A disk's surface is divided into concentric tracks (circles within circles), and the thinner the tracks, the more storage. The data bits are recorded as magnetic spots on the tracks in one ...

Half a century later, magnetic tape remains surprisingly well-used in government. NASA uses it to back up vast amounts of ...

Western Digital plans to launch a 40TB HDD in 2026 using HAMR technology, and is targeting even larger drives in the coming ...

3M, or as it was officially called until 2002, the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company is one of those odd-duck companies where if you ask what products they manufacture the answer is ...

Magnetic storage makes use of a magnetisable coating ... Be more robust - a magnetic disk could be ruined by dropping it, because its moving parts may be damaged.

ensuring the integrity of the delicate magnetic disks. Due to its enormous size and weight, it was primarily used in large data centers and mainframe computer rooms. At the time, 5MB of storage ...

What seems at first like a logical move to modernize the government's archives may in fact be an ill-advised decision.

Various types of storage media were tested: from magnetic tapes to magnetic drums and magnetic disks. In the end, magnetic tapes were not used because it took far too long to rewind from one ...