The first electronic storage medium, magnetic tape is made of flexible plastic with one side coated with a ferromagnetic material. The data are recorded as binary digits (bits) in the form of ...

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Magnetic storage makes use of a magnetisable coating. Magnetised dots are made on the surface of the material. These dots are created, read and erased by very small electromagnets. Examples ...

Because of this, it is more portable, and produces less heat compared to traditional magnetic storage devices. Less heat means that components last longer. Solid state is an ideal storage medium ...

Hard disks emerged in corporate datacenters in the late 1960s and began to flourish in the 1970s alongside tape drives, which were the primary storage medium at that time (see magnetic tape).