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What (who) is tape drive - definition

DATA STORAGE DEVICE THAT READS AND WRITES DATA ON A MAGNETIC TAPE
Tape drives; Shoe-shining Effect; Tape backup; Tape streamer; ✇; Shoe-shining effect; Streamer (tape drive); Tape Back-Up; Tape Drive; 🖭; Colorado tape drive

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tape streamer         
A tape streamer is a piece of computer equipment that you use for copying data from a hard disk onto magnetic tape for security or storage. (COMPUTING)
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magnetic tape drive         
  • [[Compact Cassette]]
  • Small open reel of [[9-track tape]]
  • A [[VHS]] helical scan head drum. Helical and transverse scans made it possible to increase the data bandwidth to the necessary point for recording video on tapes, and not just audio.
MEDIUM USED TO STORE DATA IN THE FORM OF MAGNETIC FIELDS
Magnetic Tape; Magnetic tapes; Streaming tape; Magnetic tape drive; 7-track; Oxide side; Recording tape; Magtape; Analog tape; Quarter-inch magnetic tape; Mag tape; Tape leader; Magnetizable coating; Magnetic coating; Magnetophone tape; Magnetophon tape; Leader tape; Magnetized tape strip; Analog tape recording
<storage> (Or "tape drive") A peripheral device that reads and writes magnetic tape. (1996-05-25)

Wikipedia

Tape drive

A tape drive is a data storage device that reads and writes data on a magnetic tape. Magnetic-tape data storage is typically used for offline, archival data storage. Tape media generally has a favorable unit cost and a long archival stability.

A tape drive provides sequential access storage, unlike a hard disk drive, which provides direct access storage. A disk drive can move to any position on the disk in a few milliseconds, but a tape drive must physically wind tape between reels to read any one particular piece of data. As a result, tape drives have very large average access times. However, tape drives can stream data very quickly off a tape when the required position has been reached. For example, as of 2017 Linear Tape-Open (LTO) supports continuous data transfer rates of up to 360 MB/s, a rate comparable to hard disk drives.

Examples of use of tape drive
1. My brother and I would wait patiently for the games to load off from the cassette tape drive.
2. Samir Datt says the investigators could put to use advanced software that protects computer systems, discovers and recovers all files through forensic bitsream imaging of hard disc drives as well as tape drive memory sticks.