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Thought Equity Delivers Film And Video Content Four Times Faster With Sun StorageTek T10000 Tape Drive
White Papers Thought Equity added a high-capacity, high-throughput Sun StorageTek tape drive to its existing tape library to dramatically improve the storage density, speed and scalability of its digital archiving and on-demand content delivery system.
[April 16, 2008, 0:00]
Microsoft Studios Finds A Picture-Perfect Storage Solution In StorageTek 9840 Tape Drive
White Papers StorageTek's fast, powerful 9840 tape drive met all of Microsoft Studios' criteria and more. Knowing that continually adding hard drives would be too costly, and determined to maintain its existing StorageTek WolfCreek 9360 tape library and...
[January 2, 2006, 23:00]
T9840B Tape Drive: Reliability Matters
White Papers The success (or failure) of storing and recalling data depends on the reliability of both the tape drive that writes the data and the medium (tape) it’s stored on. And what are the potential consequences of using a tape drive that is not designed...
[November 5, 2003, 23:00]
IBM To Unveil Encrypting Tape Drive
News Big Blue on Tuesday plans to unveil its IBM System Storage TS1120, designed to store and encrypt data on tape drives. IBM's TS1120 aims to allow users to encrypt data at a tape level, whether they are using Big Blue mainframes or Unix systems, for...
[September 12, 2006, 9:05]
HP StorageWorks DDS/DAT USB Tape Drive White Paper
White Papers HP StorageWorks DDS/DAT tape drives have traditionally been based on the parallel SCSI (pSCSI) interface. This interface has always been widely used and popular for its high reliability and performance.
[August 2, 2005, 0:00]
How To Improve Tape Drive Performance
White Papers For example, a faster processor or a faster tape unit improves performance, and a large amount of data takes longer to save than a small amount of data. In order to achieve optimum tape performance the most obvious requirement is to use the correct...
[November 16, 2003, 23:00]
Sun StorageTek T10000 Fibre Channel Tape Drive - Raising The Bar Of Performance: A Performance Comparison Test By Percept Technology Labs, Inc.
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[September 11, 2007, 0:00]
An E-Storage Survival Strategy
White Papers Two major types of tape drive technologies include linear and helical. DLT provides reliability, capacity, and performance, and has earned a reputation as a reliable tape drive technology. This paper describes criteria for developing a tape...
[January 5, 2005, 23:00]
External USB HDD Backups: Using BackupAssist With External USB Hard Drives
White Papers For users without a tape drive, BackupAssist can perform backups to a backup file (with the .bkf extension). This backup file can be saved to a hard drive, DVD/CD, USB Memory Stick, USB Hard Drive or Network Storage Device, enabling users to...
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape 3592: Presentation Guide
White Papers This paper describes the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive 3592 drives and controllers. The IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive 3592 Model J1A is the first offering in the new 3592 tape drive family designed for enterprise applications.
[September 24, 2004, 0:00]
HP DAT Tape Drives - Proven Reliability: Why HP Enhanced The MTBF And Error Rate Specifications For DDS-4 And DAT 72 Tape Drives
White Papers HP provides MTBF and bit error rate specifications for its tape drive products as a guide to the reliability a customer can expect in using the drive. Two of the key metrics of reliability used by the tape industry are mean time between failures...
[October 11, 2004, 0:00]
DAT - Cutting The Cost Of Tape Backup
White Papers The purchase price of a tape drive is only the first part of the overall cost of your ongoing backup solution. Annual purchasing of tape cartridges can quickly overtake the initial outlay and give you the true cost of ownership.
[July 13, 2004, 0:00]
Iomega Sub-1p-per-Mb Tape On Tap
News Iomega will add the drive to its Ditto range, luring SoHo users with a £150 + VAT price for the drive and tape cartridges that sell for £15 per unit, or 0.75 pence per megabyte. The drives are expected to ship with Seagate's new Direct Tape Access...
[September 2, 1996, 16:27]
The Four Things Your Backup Strategy Is Missing
News The hard part to stomach is that the cost of your tape drive system may exceed the direct costs of your disk expenditures. Instead of one tape drive that backs up the entire network, libraries become necessary.
[July 29, 2005, 16:20]
Snatching Chaos From The Jaws Of Order: The Myth Of Open Systems InTape Backup
White Papers Five of these issues, addressed in this paper, are: No organization dictates compatibility between LTO devices; A tape written on one drive may not be read by a drive from another vendor; Uncertain commitment to the business by the drive...
[November 9, 2003, 23:00]
StorageTek Launches Tape For Smaller Firms
News Once the primary means of backing up and recovering data from high-performance disk-drive devices, tape systems have moved down a notch with the advent of cheaper disk-based machines, said Bob Zimmerman, an analyst at Forrester Research.
[June 30, 2004, 9:45]
HP Reveals Green Storage Technology
News Innovations include a new blade for the c-Class chassis that will be the first blade fitted with a tape drive, performance enhancements for the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family, tape drives based on the Linear Tape-Open (LTO...
[June 20, 2007, 10:39]
Quantum Pulls Out Of Hard Disk Business
News The company does a strong business with its tape backup systems -- particularly because customers keep buying tapes even after they've bought the tape drive. But the company faces competition with a new tape drive, Linear Tape Open "Ultrium...
[April 2, 2001, 7:26]
IBM Backs Tape With New Drives
News And to back that up, on Thursday IBM launched what it claims is the world's fastest tape drive. Also introduced at Storage Expo were the TS1100 tape drive with up to 500GB capacity and the TS3310 modular, mid-range tape library.
[October 13, 2005, 13:00]
Interview: Iomega's Oest Plots Death Of Travan
News With the Internet becoming more and more important, users are looking at things like tape drives. We did an immense amount of market research asking people what they wanted form tape drives. To make a Travan TR-4 drive you need expensive things...
[September 4, 1996, 13:27]
