#magnetictape — Public Fediverse posts

Fujifilm LTO Ultrium 10 40TB tape cartridge arrives in the US proving tape storage is not dead yet

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/04/fujifilm-lto10-40tb-tape/

Nebel lang – 274
#Ambient #IshmaelCormack #acoustic #drifting #givernywelsch #improvisation #impulse #jazz #magnetictape #nannespringer #photography #piano #print #reeltoreel #triptych #BadHonnef
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://nebellang.bandcamp.com/album/274

Habt ihr schon mal was gehört oder gesehen vom Open Reel Ensemble? Die machen Musik nicht auf sondern mit Magnetbändern. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-6WfT8RAh4 #rocknroll #openreel #magnetictape

ABS-CBN: Resurrecting nostalgia: Archiving to preserve history before it’s too late. “In the age of streaming, it’s hard to imagine not being able to watch a film again after its theatrical run, or a show after it has aired on television. But almost half a century ago, this was the reality faced by then-high school student Dann Garcia. He observed at the time the dearth in the available […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/13/resurrecting-nostalgia-archiving-to-preserve-history-before-its-too-late-abs-cbn/

"The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Monday that the General Services Administration converted 14,000 magnetic to digital records, and claimed the process saved a million dollars a year.

@DOGE on X: The @USGSA IT team just saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 yr old technology for information storage) to permanent modern digital records.
The problem is, magnetic tapes are regarded by storage and archivist professionals as being a stable, reliable, and safe medium for long-term data storage. Just because it’s a 70 year old medium doesn’t mean those records needed a massive overhaul to digital, that it will save any money in the long term, or that the new storage method is better.

Casual storage enjoyers might hear tape and think fragile spools of plastic that can rot or wear out. But digital storage is not necessarily a better option if you’re trying to keep information for years; digital storage rot, or “bit rot,” can affect a hard drive over years of storage, making the data corrupt or inaccessible. This happens when the electrical charge inside a solid-state storage device—like the kind of digital drive we can assume DOGE is talking about—leaks and causes the drive to lose performance."

https://www.404media.co/doge-gsa-magnetic-tape-archives-digital-storage/

#USA #Trump #Musk #DOGE #DigitalStorage #MagneticTape #Archiving #DataStorage

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#ArsTechnica
Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/music-industrys-1990s-hard-drives-like-all-hdds-are-dying/

#MusicIndustry #HardDrives #DataArchiving #Entropy #Storage #Failure #DataLoss #IronMountain #RobertKoszela #Mix #DigitalAudioWorkstations #MagneticTape #SSDs #FloppyDisks #LinearTapeOpen

Looking forward to trolling my colleagues with diagrams made using this template. My excuse? I was denied a licence for #LucidChart. #VintageComputing #Flowchart #PunchedCard #PunchedTape #DrumDisk #MagneticTape

Considering the calories burned, it's one of the less efficient data transfers 😅 Good thing it's going downhill on the stairs...

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #nostalgie #nostalgi #reeltape #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retro #europee #retrocomputing #storage #magnetictape #datastorage #vintageibm #ibm360

Donna (Tori Spelling) discovers that leaving a tape in the glove compartment of a car in southern California causes it to melt while Kelly (Jennie Garth) looks on in Season 4 Episode 3 of Beverly Hills 90120 (22 Sept 1993)

#cassettes #tape #ReelToReel #MagneticTape #ToriSpelling #BeverlyHills90210 #PortableSoundOnTelevision #PortableSound #JennieGarth #90sTV #90s

Our #ObjectOfTheWeek: Unopened Maxell Original UR IEC Type I Normal Bias Compact Cassette (date unknown; presumed 1990s). Detail images courtesy Museum of Portable Sound Archives.

#Maxell #CompactCassette #CassetteTape #NormalBias #MagneticTape #Cassettes #Archives #MuseumOfPortableSound #ItsOkayToBeNormal

Finding Lo-fi In All The Strange Places - If you haven’t heard any lo-fi music yet, it stands for low-fidelity music. Lofi m... - https://hackaday.com/2022/02/23/finding-lo-fi-in-all-the-strange-places/ #magneticcardaudio #cassettetapehack #musicalhacks #magnetictape #lofi

IBM reports that a single tape cartridge could store 580 TB of data https://buff.ly/2L1gvNJ #storage #tape #IBM #MagneticTape #TapeStorage

Bespoke Storage Technologies: The Alphabet Soup Found in Modern Hard Drives and Beyond - It seems like just yesterday (maybe for some of you it was) we were installing Windows 3.1 off flopp... - https://hackaday.com/2020/11/04/bespoke-storage-technologies-the-alphabet-soup-found-in-modern-hard-drives-and-beyond/ #shingledmagneticrecording #hackadaycolumns #magnetictape #originalart #harddrives #tapedrive #hardware #interest #storage #hdd #qlc #smr #ssd