Magnetic Tape Storage is a way of storing digital information on a along strip of magnetic tape.
This type of storage, though outdated, is widely used as a backup storage.
magnetic tape drives are often referred to as MTD storage.
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| Linear | | Wide (19–25.4 mm) |
- IBM 7340 (1961)
- LINCtape (1962)
- DECtape (1963)
- CDC 626 (1966)
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| Half inch (12.7 mm) |
- UNISERVO (1951)
- IBM 7-track (1952)
- TX-2 Tape System (1958)
- 9-track (1964)
- IBM 3480 (1984)
- DLT (1984)
- IBM 3590 (1995)
- T9840 (1998)
- T9940 (2000)
- LTO Ultrium (2000)
- IBM 3592 (2003)
- T10000 (2006)
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| Eight millimeter (8 mm) |
- Travan (1995)
- IBM 3570 MP (1997)
- ADR (1999)
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| Quarter inch (6.35 mm) |
- QIC (1972)
- SLR (1986)
- Ditto (1992)
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| "Eighth" (0.15) inch (3.81 mm) |
- D/CAS (1971)
- KC standard, Compact Cassette (1975)
- DC100 (1976)
- Tarbell Cassette Interface (1976)
- Commodore Datasette (1977)
- DECtape II (1979)
- IBM PC Cassette (1981)
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| Stringy (1.58–1.9 mm) |
- Exatron Stringy Floppy (1979)
- ZX Microdrive (1983)
- QL Microdrive (1984)
- Rotronics Wafadrive (1984)
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| Helical | | Three quarter inch (19 mm) |
- Sony DIR (19xx)
- Ampex DST (1992)
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| Half inch (12.7 mm) |
- ArVid (1992)
- Redwood SD-3 (1995)
- DTF (19xx)
- SAIT (2003)
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| Eight millimeter (8 mm) |
- Data8 (1987)
- Mammoth (1994)
- AIT (1996)
- VXA (1999)
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| Four millimeter (3.81 mm) | |
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