Since the introduction of the computers, the first thing that the scientist developed in order to manufacture the computer was some device which could be used for the data storage. Because the essence of the computer was to take inputs and process and then provide output and store it. the data storage was the key component. In the beginning the data storage in Australia were the punch cards, and after this these were replaced by the magnetic storages and afterwards many other devices were introduced one of which was the data storage tape which is still in use unlike many of the other data storage devices which have gone obsolete.
Tape storage which is more commonly known as the magnetic tape data storage is a device which uses the magnetic tape for storing the digital information. Although, there are now modern versions of the magnetic tapes and these are usually developed in the form of the cassettes or the cartridges. Although in order to save the information and to retrieve it, there is another special device called the tape drive in which the data storage tape is inserted and it is read or written on.
In the past the data storage tape was only used primarily for the storage of the information but now the modern usage of these are usually the backup of the data and the archiving of the data and sometimes could also be used for the exchange of the data as well. The tape storage used in the starting of the history of the computers were very large and therefore the computers were large as well and then UNIVAC was designed which also made use of the tape storage but by then the tape storage had gone a lot thinner and smaller in the size. Afterwards these were used in the number of machines but over the time people realized some drawbacks of the tape storage and found out that since the tape storage provide sequential access which means that in the normal processing where there is huge need to retrieve and store data, the tape is very slow and therefore, for such operations such device storages were introduced which provided the direct access so that the operations and the processing could not be delayed and thereby the tape storage is now used for the backup purposes or for the archives where there is not the need to retrieving and storing the information all the time and therefore, these are ideal for such tasks.
