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Tape Drive: A magnetic type drive is used for storage and retrieval of data. which is stored on magnetic tape medium. The tape drive is different for tape reels. tape cartridges. and tape cassettes. However, all of them work on a similar mechanism like the audio tape recorders or videocassette recorders VCR found in our homes. that is the tape drive has read/write heads. and as the tape ribbon passes under the read/write heads. the data can be either read and transmitted to primary storage. or transmitted form primary storage and written to the tape by giving suitable commands to the tape drive, instead of play and record. read and write commands are used with the tape drive. just as in the case of an audio tape recorder or videocassette recorder.