In the 1980s and 1990s, small tape drives were used for desktop computer backup but were eclipsed by Zip disks and other magnetic media. After the turn of the century, optical media (CD-R ...

Makers of hard disk drives, under growing pressure from faster rivals, hope a breakthrough will keep it the dominant ...

The most common types are CD, DVD and Blu-ray. As removable media, optical discs superseded the earlier magnetic disk cartridges because they weigh less, have higher capacities and are not subject ...

You can almost never decouple the magnetic disks from the reading hardware inside ... how the binder sleeves we put our CD-Rs ...

All but four also could be formatted without issues, the problematic disks reported bad sectors, which was a bit of a bummer. As a practical demonstration of how fun magnetic media is, he then ...