Magnetic Tapes are generally used to backup data.

Although less expensive than magnetic disk, but the process of data access is slower,

because using the Sequential Access to access data sequentially from the beginning,

unlike the magnetic disk that uses Direct Access can access data from anywhere.

Magnetic Tapes has a seating capacity of the data. And can be pundahkanke the Tape Drive.

Tape jukeboxes can accommodate very large data, such as remote-sensing data from the satellit which can reach hundreds of terabytes (112 bytes, or sometimes can mencapat petabytes (115 bytes).