STORAGE MEDIA ARCHIVE / PERIODIC SYSTEM

Magnetic & optical media

A format-by-format visual system for removable magnetic and optical storage. Each card uses the matching EOF Labs specimen artwork rather than a generic placeholder.

3MEDIA FAMILIES

26ARTWORKS LOADED

0PLACEHOLDER CARDS

EOF Labs magnetic media artwork

MAGNETIC TAPE

Tape formats

audio, data, enterprise and specialist cartridge branches

Compact cassette

Compact cassette¼-inch analog cassette and computer data variants1963–present

DAT and DDS

DAT / DDS4 mm helical-scan audio and data cartridge1987–2010s

QIC cartridge

QICQuarter-inch cartridge tape1970s–2000s

DLT

DLTDigital Linear Tape1980s–2000s

Super DLT

SDLTSuper DLT high-capacity linear tape2001–2007

AIT

AITAdvanced Intelligent Tape1996–2010s

Exabyte 8 mm

Exabyte 8 mmHelical-scan backup tape1980s–2000s

VXA

VXAPacket-based 8 mm tape1999–2000s

SLR

SLRScalable Linear Recording1990s–2000s

ADR

ADROnStream Advanced Digital Recordinglate 1990s–2000s

LTO Ultrium

LTO UltriumEnterprise linear tape family2000–present

IBM 3480 cartridge

IBM 3480 / 3490Mainframe cartridge transition1980s–1990s

IBM 3590 cartridge

IBM 3590Magstar enterprise tape1990s–2000s

IBM 3592 cartridge

IBM 3592Enterprise tape through TS11702003–present

StorageTek T10000 cartridge

StorageTek T10000Oracle/StorageTek enterprise tape2006–2020s

REMOVABLE MAGNETIC DISK

Disk cartridges & floppies

flexible disks and removable hard-disk cartridges

8-inch floppy

8-inch floppyEarly flexible magnetic disk1971–1980s

5.25-inch floppy

5.25-inch floppyFlexible disk for personal computing1976–1990s

3.5-inch floppy

3.5-inch floppyRigid-shell microfloppy1982–2010s

Zip disk

Zip diskIomega removable magnetic disk1994–2000s

Jaz disk

JazHigh-capacity removable magnetic disk cartridge1995–2002

SyQuest removable disk

SyQuestRemovable magnetic hard-disk cartridge1980s–1990s

OPTICAL & MAGNETO-OPTICAL

Disc media

pressed, recordable and rewritable optical families

Compact Disc

CDCompact Disc optical storage1980s–present

DVD

DVDDigital Versatile Disc1990s–present

MiniDisc

MiniDiscPocket-sized magneto-optical audio1992–2013

MO disk

MO diskRewritable magneto-optical cartridge1980s–2010s

Blu-ray

Blu-rayHigh-density optical disc2006–present

WORM optical cartridge

WORMWrite-once optical cartridge families1980s–2000s

Ultra Density Optical cartridge

UDOUltra Density Optical2003–2010s

All shown cards use uploaded EOF Labs artworkDetail links now point to the corresponding technical page/section