Exabyte has been a leader in the tape storage industry for more than a decade, pioneering the use of 8mm tape for backup, incorporating Sony's camcorder-based mechanisms into over 1.5 million tape drives. While camcorder-based mechanisms … [Read more...]
Robotic Tape Storage Applications
There are all kinds of storage device that can be used to back up data, from high density super-floppy disks to DVD drives. But when it come to providing the speed, capacity and reliability needed to protect shared network data, most … [Read more...]
VXA Tape Storage technology
Streaming is the technique used to transfer data in linear and helical scan tape drives, which operate by reading an entire track thousands of bytes long in a single pass of a Read head at a fixed tape speed. In order for such drives to operate … [Read more...]
Tape Storage Linear Tape Open
Linear Tape Open (LTO) is, as the name implies, an attempt to develop an open standard for linear tape storage as an alternative to the proprietary Quantum DLT format. Proposed and developed initially by a consortium of Hewlett-Packard, IBM … [Read more...]
ADR Tape Technology
Advanced Digital Recording technology is the product of seven years of research on the part of electronics industry giant Philips. To provide the focus needed to successfully bring ADR to market, Philips created a spin-off company - … [Read more...]
Super DLT Tape Storage
One of the most significant of the new formats is the next generation of Digital Linear Tape (DLT), otherwise known as Super DLT. This is important because developer Quantum accounted for around 80% of the tape drive market by early 1999. … [Read more...]
AIT – Advanced Intelligent Tape – family of tape storage
(Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) was the first multisourced tape standard targeted at the midrange server market, which is typically characterised by systems that support 2 to 129 users in a commercial environment. Introduced in 1996, AIT was designed to support this key market segment with … [Read more...]
8mm Tape Storage
8mm tape technology was originally designed for the video industry. Its original purpose was to transfer high-quality colour images to tape for storage and retrieval. Now 8mm technology has been adopted by the computer industry as a … [Read more...]
DAT Tape Storage
DAT stands for Digital Audio Tape and, as its name implies, was originally conceived as a CD-quality audio format. In 1998, Sony and HP defined the DDS (Digital Data Storage) standard, transforming the format into one that could be used for … [Read more...]
Travan Tape Storage
While the build quality of QIC/Travan cartridges is superb - making them ideal for long-term storage - for a long time they are more expensive than DAT media. This was especially so for the 8GB/Travan-4 cartridges, which have built-in tape … [Read more...]