To store data permanently. For example, to transfer data from hard disks to tapes or floppy disks, allowing them to be erased from the original medium.

永久性地存储数据。例如，把数据从硬盘传送到磁带或软盘上，而允许数据从原介质上清除掉。

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And tapes can be used over and over, then erased.

录像带可以反复使用，然后再抹掉。

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For example, to transfer data from hard disks to tapes or floppy disks, allowing them to be erased from the original medium.

例如，把数据从硬盘传送到磁带或软盘上，而允许数据从原介质上清除掉。

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Carson gained control of the show's tapes--except for the episodes that aired from 1962 and 1972, which were erased to save on storage costs--from General Electric 's NBC in a host of unprecedented negotiations over the course of his 30-year tenure.

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Carson gained control of the show's tapes--except for the episodes that aired from 1962 and 1972, which were erased to save on storage costs--from General Electric 's (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC in a host of unprecedented negotiations over the course of his 30-year tenure.

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