Editing Backup (section)

====Magnetic tape====
[[Magnetic tape data storage|Magnetic tape]] was for a long time the most commonly used medium for bulk data storage, backup, archiving, and interchange. It was previously a less expensive option, but this is no longer the case for smaller amounts of data.<ref name=EngenioDiskToDiskVsTape>{{cite web  |date=9 December 2004  |access-date=26 May 2019
   |url=http://www.storagesearch.com/engenio-art2.html  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050207082953/http://www.storagesearch.com/engenio-art2.html  |url-status=dead  |archive-date=7 February 2005  |title=Disk to Disk Backup versus Tape – War or Truce? |last1=Gardner |first1=Steve |at=Peaceful coexistence |publisher=Engenio
 }}</ref> Tape is a [[sequential access]] medium, so the rate of continuously writing or reading data can be very fast. While tape media itself has a low cost per space, [[tape drive]]s are typically dozens of times as expensive as [[hard disk drive]]s and [[optical drive]]s.

Many tape formats have been proprietary or specific to certain markets like mainframes or a particular brand of personal computer. By 2014 [[Linear Tape-Open#Market performance|LTO]] had become the primary tape technology.<ref name="SpectraLogicDigitalDataStorageOutlook2017">{{cite web |title=Digital Data Storage Outlook 2017 |url=https://spectralogic.com/wp-content/uploads/white-paper-digital-data-storage-outlook-2017-v3.pdf |website=Spectra |publisher=Spectra Logic |access-date=11 July 2018 |page=7(Solid-State), 10(Magnetic Disk), 14(Tape), 17(Optical) |year=2017}}</ref> The other remaining viable "super" format is the [[IBM 3592]] (also referred to as the TS11xx series). The [[StorageTek tape formats#T10000|Oracle StorageTek T10000]] was discontinued in 2016.<ref name="ForbesKeepingDataLongTime">{{cite web |author=Tom Coughlin  |title=Keeping Data for a Long Time |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2014/06/29/keeping-data-for-a-long-time/ |website=Forbes |access-date=19 April 2018 |date=29 June 2014 |at=para. Magnetic Tapes(popular formats, storage life), para. Hard Disk Drives(active archive), para. First consider flash memory in archiving(... may not have good media archive life)}}</ref>