60.0 GB Tape Drives & Media

Computers have many options for making backup files. Modern electronics are very reliable, but accidents happen and using the available storage and blank media options can save a whole lot of grief down the road. Tape drives and media may sound like old technology, but they are not. Like blank CDs and blank DVDs, digital tape is still a valuable safety net.

Home computer users will probably choose a CD burner or DVD burner because those are designed for personal computer use. Digital tape has storage capacities ranging from 10GB to over 1TB (1,000GB-plus)--a little beyond what the average consumer electronics user usually needs. Also of interest to consumers, tape drives aren't as easy to search as CDs or DVDs. However, for servers and data libraries, where large, frequent downloads are part of the program, tape drives and magnetic tapes are the cost-effective, space saving way to go, much like how Overstock.com is the online shopping, discount computers way to go.

Many tape drive styles have been designed over the five decades they've been in use. Like a CD burner or DVD burner, a tape drive can be internal or external. Also, like DVD-RW versus DVD+RW, magnetic tapes are made to fit specific tape drives.

Business and academic users, for example, who are networking large numbers of desktop computers, laptop computers or other network nodes can link their computer hardware to their servers and set up automatic archiving copies. Automated tape storage devices, similar to the juke boxes of the 1950s, make keeping tapes orderly and available a simple, painless process. Well, almost painless--you still have to pay for the thing. But Overstock.com is on the job, making that process as painless as possible. Hey, with discounts of 30, 50 even 70 percent off, somebody is doing something right!