tape drive

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A device that reads data stored on magnetic tape and writes data onto the tape for storage.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun computing, archaic A cassette drive.
• noun computing, archaic A reel-to-reel tape machine for computers.
• noun computing A tape cartridge interface for computers that reads and/or writes to a tape.
• noun A drive mechanism that is used to traverse a tape.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder