Throughout the history of computers, one aspect has plagued and restricted its growth more than any other: permanent storage. From the very first computers that used punched cards and tape for ...

From Paper Tape to Data Sticks: The Evolution of Removable Storage Over the years, people have tried to transfer information from one computer to another in a dizzying number of ways.

Magnetic tape storage has a long history as a storage medium, being the primary way to store computer data from the 1960s to the 1980s. More recently, tape has been most closely associated with ...

The era of data-centric computing is here -- and, fortunately, data storage is more cost effective than ever. But we'll see more change in the next decade than we've ever seen before in computer ...

A hard drive, also known as a hard disk drive, is a storage device used on many computers that's prone to failure but offers high performance.

Two plastic data packs, one in a blue plastic case and from Control Data, the other in a translucent black plastic case and from WANG. As the name data pack suggests, the objects are layered groupings ...

Racetrack Memory Will Make Your Computer Smaller, Better, Faster, Stronger Meet the data storage technique of the near future.