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

Elon Musk's organization aims to save $1 million annually by converting government records to digital formats. That switch ...

A Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) social media post boasts of the elimination of tape data storage facilities at ...

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

Magnetic storage is quickly becoming an antiquated ... they’re the antithesis of solid state drives (SSDs) because tape drives are slow to retrieve data but capable of holding a lot inexpensively.

The comment doesn’t include any context as to what tape technology was used (reel-to-reel or cartridge), how long it took to ...

The “warm” data in the middle, such as your old photos, can take a few seconds to retrieve. Most data is cold, and a lot of it could probably be erased without consequence. Yet some of it might one ...

DOGE on Friday said the General Services Administration is saving $1 million by converting magnetic tapes to permanent modern ...

In February 2025, Musk criticized a federal contract with Iron Mountain to store physical records, labeling it a "time warp" ...

DOGE recently announced that it has replaced 14,000 magnetic storage tapes used by the US General Services Administration ...

A sequential storage medium used for data collection, backup and archiving. The first electronic storage medium, magnetic tape is made of flexible plastic with one side coated with a ferromagnetic ...