These days, data is as likely as not to be “in the cloud.” Otherwise, it’s probably on a USB flash drive or SD card. But in the old days, paper tape was a widespread way to store and retrieve data. A ...

We’ve enjoyed several videos from [Chornobyl Family] about the computers that controlled the ill-fated nuclear reactor in Chornobyl (or Chernobyl, as it was spelled at the time of the accident). This ...

IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. last month each brought out tape drives that can encrypt data, a capability that should help safeguard information on lost or stolen tapes. Both vendors are adding the ...

Is anyone surprised that vendors are coming up with new backup solutions for the SMEs (small-medium enterprises)? I’m not, considering the growing opportunity for smaller storage systems — but don’t ...

In this age of smartphone zombification, it's hard to believe that there was once a time when most people had never seen or touched a computer. When I grew up in the 1970s, we didn't have a computer.

There was a time, in computing's not-so-distant past, where magnetic tape was the best way to back up large amounts of data. In the mid-90s, tape could store tens or hundreds of gigabytes, while hard ...

A guy near me is selling some used LTO-6 drives which may be in good shape, not heavily used. My question: What exactly constitutes an "internal drive". I see it's got more casing on it, and ...