7. Magnetic Tape
Magnetic tape is also a storage device similar to audio cassettes. It is like the old-time audio case Magnetic Tape was primarily used to store a large amount of audio data. They were cheap. Even today, it is used to create a data backup.
Magnetic tape has been an effective medium to store audio and binary data storage for many years and is still part of some systems’ storage devices.
Magnetic tape is made of a thin and long plastic strip. A magnetic layer is applied to it, and the data is saved to the layer which is needed to send the tape to a coil to read, which by a process decodes the data present on that tape.
This tape was also used to store computer data. But these devices decline in popularity after the arrival of hard disk drives in the market.
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