High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Magnetic tape has been used for data storage for over 50 years. In this time, many advances in tape formulation, packaging, and data density have been made. Modern magnetic tape is most commonly packaged in cartridges and cassettes. The device that performs actual writing or reading of data is a tape drive. Autoloaders and tape libraries are frequently used to automate cartridge handling. When storing large amounts of data, tape can be substantially less expensive than disk or other data storage options.Tape storage has always been used with large computer systems. Modern usage is primarily as a high capacity medium for backups and archives. As of 2008, the highest capacity tape cartridges (Sun StorageTek T10000B, IBM TS1130) can store 1 TB of uncompressed data.

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