Taking on a refrigerator-sized minicomputer is not for the faint-hearted, but [Usagi Electric] has done it with a DEC PDP-11/44. He’s not doing it in half measures either, for his machine is tricked ...

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 ...

Figure the hive mind might have a better idea. All the SCSI connected tape devices that I have worked with are not hot swappable - i.e. if you need to disconnect and reconnect or something along those ...

If you have more than one state-of-the-art tape drive behind your LAN-based backup server, chances are you have too many. That’s right. If you’ve got a LAN-based backup server, and behind it is more ...

A recently released standard for linear tape-open—LTO-9—sets the scene for faster drives with more capacity, but are they a must-have? With the recent release of the linear tape–open 9 (LTO-9) ...

IBM announced its TS1170 magnetic tape drive, supporting storage capacities up to 50TB native and higher capacities with compression. The product has a native data rate of 400 MB/s and has a 12Gb SAS ...

IBM announced the general availability of the industry’s first magnetic tapes and drives based on the LTO-9 Ultrium specification for massive data capacity and resilience. The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) 9 ...

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 ...