While other formats are also used in digital literary studies this has become the most accepted storage format.

But there is a tremendous range of possible storage formats for file type metadata.

David Pogue discusses the life expectancy of today's digital storage formats.

On the one hand, the storage formats are quite complex and are based on outdated technology.

But since you can copy music only onto the hard drive, never off it, the storage format makes no practical difference.

Of course I keep my old work on disks, but storage formats change.

The easiest and most used are and binary storage formats based on serializers.

In the 1990s, it was projected that optical tape would be a commonly used, high-capacity, high-speed computer data storage format.

It is still the backup record of choice, as electronic storage formats become obsolete overnight.

First, the magnetic storage formats which are fundamental to computing have been demonstrated to be inherently unstable.