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| ปี | ผู้ผลิต | รูปแบบ | ความจุ | การพัฒนา |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1951 | Remington Rand | UNISERVO | 224 KB | First computer tape drive, used 1/2" nickel-plated phosphor bronze tape |
| 1952 | IBM | 726 |  | Use of plastic tape (cellulose acetate); 7-track tape that could store every 6-bit byte plus a parity bit |
| 1958 | IBM | 729 |  | Separate read/write heads providing transparent read-after-write verification. As of January 2009, the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California has working IBM 729 tape drives attached to its working IBM 1401 system. |
| 1964 | IBM | 2400 |  | 9-track tape that could store every 8-bit byte plus a parity bit |
| 1970's | IBM | 3400 |  | Auto-loading tape reels and drives, avoiding manual tape threading Group coded recording for error recovery |
| 1972 | 3M | Quarter Inch Cartridge (QIC-11) | 20 MB | Tape cassette (with two reels) Linear serpentine recording |
| 1974 | IBM | 3850 |  | Tape cartridge (with single reel) First tape library with robotic access |
| 1975 | (various) | Kansas City standard |  | Use of standard audio cassettes |
| 1977 | Commodore International | Commodore Datasette | 1978 KB | Also used standard audio cassettes |
| 1980 | Cipher | (F880?) |  | RAM buffer to mask start-stop delays |
| 1984 | IBM | 3480 | 200 MB | Internal takeup reel with automatic tape takeup mechanism. Thin-film magnetoresistive (MR) head |
| 1984 | DEC | TK50 | 94 MB | Digital Linear Tape (DLT) line of products |
| 1986 | IBM | 3480 | 400 MB | Hardware data compression (IDRC algorithm) |
| 1987 | Exabyte/Sony | EXB-8200 | 2.4 GB | First helical digital tape drive Elimination of the capstan and pinch-roller system |
| 1993 | DEC | Tx87 |  | Tape directory (database with first tapemark nr on each serpentine pass) |
| 1995 | IBM | 3570 |  | Servo tracks - factory-recorded tracks for precise head positioning (Time Based Servoing or TBS) Tape on unload rewound to the midpoint—halving access time (requires two-reel cassette) |
| 1996 | HP | DDS3 | 12 GB | Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (PRML) reading method—no fixed thresholds |
| 1997 | IBM | VTS |  | Virtual tape—disk cache that emulates tape drive |
| 1999 | Exabyte | Mammoth-2 | 60 GB | The small cloth-covered wheel cleaning tape heads  Inactive burnishing heads to prep the tape and deflect any debris or excess lubricant  Section of cleaning material at the beginning of each data tape |
| 2000 | Quantum | Super DLT | 110 GB | Optical servo precisely positioning the heads |
| 2000 | Linear Tape-Open | LTO-1 | 100 GB |  |
| 2003 | IBM | 3592 | 300 GB | Virtual backhitch |
| 2003 | Linear Tape-Open | LTO-2 | 200 GB |  |
| 2003 | Sony | SAIT-1 | 500 GB | Single-reel cartridge for helical recording |
| 2005 | IBM | TS1120 | 700 GB |  |
| 2005 | Linear Tape-Open | LTO-3 | 400 GB |  |
| 2006 | StorageTek | T10000 | 500 GB | Multiple head assemblies and servos per drive |
| 2007 | Linear Tape-Open | LTO-4 | 800 GB |  |
| 2008 | IBM | TS1130 |  1 TB | Encryption capability integrated into the drive |
| 2008 | StorageTek | T10000B |  1 TB |  |
| 2010 | Linear Tape-Open | LTO-5 |  1.5 TB | Linear Tape File System (LTFS), which allows accessing files on tape in the file system directly (similar to disk filesystems) without an additional tape library database |
| 2011 | IBM | TS1140 |  4 TB | Linear Tape File System (LTFS) supported |
| 2011 | StorageTek | T10000C |  5 TB | Linear Tape File System (LTFS) supported |
| 2012 | Linear Tape-Open | LTO-6 |  2.5 TB |  |
| 2013 | StorageTek | T10000D |  8.5 TB |  |
| 2014 | IBM | TS1150 | 10 TB |  |
| 2015 | Linear Tape-Open | LTO-7 |  6 TB |  |
| 2017 | IBM | TS1155 | 15 TB |  |
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