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| | Articles - Tape drive |
 | | Tape drive storage is usually referred to with the assumption of 2:1 compression; the raw storage capacity is known as the native capacity. | | | A tape drive, also known as a streamer, is a peripheral device that reads and writes data stored on a magnetic tape or a punched tape. | | | Tape drives are sequential-access, and must wind past all preceding data to read any one particular piece of data. |
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http://www.seekj.com/articles/Tape_drive
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| | Disk saves the day (and night) |
| | Open File Manager lets the Galaxy software capture files that are open and in use during the back-up process. | | | Once the data is on disk, he generates copies from the storage array to tape for off-site storage. | | | Once data is on disk, Banta can back it up to tape using Legato Systems' NetWorker software at his leisure and without affecting server operations. |
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http://www.networkworld.com/supp/storage2003/0324backup.html
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| | ☞ tape - open reel tape racks - open reel tape racks online guide |
| | LTO tape format is the implementation of the LTO (Linear Tape Open... | | | Back to Computer Tapes and Accessories;Magnetic Media;9-Track, Open-Reel Tape and Accessories... | | | More professional open reel tape recorders are aligned by manufacturers to 456 than all other tapes... |
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http://www.all-tape.info/reeltape/open-reel-tape-racks.html
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| | Storage Digest: News from ADIC, ProStor, NetEx, EMC, MaXXan, Fortiva, Xiotech, ONStor, SimpleTech, C |
| | The tape library platform accommodates up to 18 LTO (Linear Tape Open) drives and up to 404 tapes. | | | Users choose from one of three preconfigured base systems and can add expansion modules or activate capacity-on-demand tape positions using a software key to scale them. | | | RDX technology also offers a 30MB per second data rate, allowing it to back up data much more quickly than tape. |
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1881196,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
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| | Battle Lines Dept.: An interesting battle is brewing in the tape-backup arena, as the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) consortium led by IBM (with Hewlett-Packard and Seagate as codevelopers) begins to dominate the industry. | | | It has rolled over the Digital Linear Tape (DLT) folks (Quantum Corp.) and appears to have staved off the Quantum SDLT products. | | | There seemed to be no difference between these tapes and regular high-grade tapes except in the lone case of the evaporated-metal Hi-band 8-mm tape. |
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,6357,00.asp
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| | Digital Linear Tape: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic |
| | Linear tape-open (or lto) is a computer storage magnetic tape format developed as an alternative to digital linear tape (dlt).... | | | Digital Linear Tape (DLT) is a de facto standard for magnetic tape magnetic tape quick summary: | | | Digital data storage (dds) is a format for storing and backing up computer data on magnetic tape that evolved from digital audio tape (dat) technology,... |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/d/di/digital_linear_tape.htm
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| | PCQuest : In Depth : Tape Store-ies |
| | The 4mm DAT (Digital Audio Tape), Exabytes 8mm Mammoth and Sonys AIT (Advanced Intelligent Tape) are based on HST while Quantums Digital Linear Tape (DLT and SuperDLT) and LTO (Linear Tape Open) by IBM, Seagate and HP employ the use of LST. | | | In LST, the tape moves linearly over the head assembly where the precisely aligned read and write heads are located. | | | Two protocols differentiated by compression algorithms and drive technologies exist in the 8mm spacethe Mammoth by Exabyte and the AIT (Advanced Intelligent Tape) by Sony and Seagate. |
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http://www.pcquest.com/content/depth/103040306.asp
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| | IBM LTO Linear Tape-Open: Overview - IBM System Storage |
| | The IBM System Storage&; TS3500 Tape Library combines IBM automation and drive technology to provide a highly scalable, automated tape library for System z™ and open systems backup and archive in midrange to enterprise environments. | | | The IBM System Storage&; TS3200 Tape Library Express Model is designed for backup, save and restore, and archival data-storage needs for small to medium-size environments. | | | The IBM TotalStorage 3581 Tape Autoloader Express Models are built based on customer and business partner feedback with the options, features, and functions that mid-market companies seek to address the needs of their business. |
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http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/storage/tape/lto
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| | The Data Center Journal - Glossary |
| | DLT tapes use half inch tape media, fully enclosed in a sealed case which is designed only to open when the tape is in the drive. | | | Tape storage developed in the late seventies by Digital Equipment Company, and the basis for successive generations of DLT tape drive which higher storage capacities and transfer rates. | | | SDTS is a standard for the transfer of digital spatial data between (dissimilar) computer systems, with the potential for no information loss. |
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http://www.datacenterjournal.com/Tools/Glossary.asp
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| | Digital Linear Tape(DLT) , ADR |
| | Digital Linear Tapes are perfect for backing up LAN servers, workstations and mid range systems; hierarchical storage management; DVD mastering. | | | The Ultrium system is based on the industry's first open data storage platform. | | | DLT Data Cartridges, Data Cartridges, Computers, Printers & Accessories, IMN11776, IMN 11776, Imation, Imation DLT tape IV is specifically designed for the demands of network and data center operations. |
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http://www.netbankstore.com/store/Digital_Linear_TapeDLT_ADR_Magnetic_Media.html
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| | lto, linear tape open, s-dlt, super digital linear tape, ait, advanced intelligent tape, slr, scalable linear recording, tape technologies, data recovery |
| | lto, linear tape open, s-dlt, super digital linear tape, ait, advanced intelligent tape, slr, scalable linear recording, tape technologies, data recovery, disk data recovery, disc, raid, corrupt data, computer forensics, data loss, data conversion, hard drive recovery and computer evidence solutions from Vogon International USA | | | HP (Hewlett Packard), IBM and Seagate decided to develop from scratch an open tape format (LTO) that incorporates the best of breed features from existing tape and other storage technologies. | | | No other technology today or coming to market in the next few years combines the low cost, storage density, fast transfer rate, ease of off-site storage and reliability of tape. |
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http://www.vogon-international.us/lto-linear-tape-open.htm
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| | PCWorld.com - Tape Storage Carves a Role in E-Business |
| | In the same way that disk storage recently underwent a revolution, a wave of recent upgrades to tape storage technology and the development of a new interoperability standard, LTO (Linear Tape Open), has opened the lines of communication among tape vendors in an effort to provide heterogeneous operation and backward-compatibility across proprietary tape storage platforms. | | | Tape storage media have been used in isolated "islands" during the past 50 years due to what Brenda Zawatski, vice president of removable media solutions at IBM's Storage Systems Division, sees as a lack of cohesive industry vision for tape storage and the unglamorous perception of tape as being an archaic solution. | | | But as the need for storage capacity and data warehousing continues to mushroom, cost-conscious companies are becoming wary of spending large sums on expensive disk-based storage systems--especially for seldom-accessed data--and are instead looking to tape-based systems. |
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http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,18267,00.asp
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| | Japan Tape Drive and Tape Automation 2004-2008 Forecast and 2003 Vendor Shares - Market Research Report |
| | Technologies include half-inch cartridge (e.g., 3480/3490, 3590/9840/9940, and digital tape format [DTF]), linear tape open (LTO), digital linear tape/super digital linear tape (DLT/SDLT), 8mm, Advanced Intelligen Tape (AIT), digital data storage (DDS), Scalable Linear Recording (SLR), Travan, DLT1, and Variable Speed Architecture (VXA). | | | Surveys on tape drive shipments are done by capacity type while surveys on tape automation are done by the number of cartridges. | | | This IDC study provides the shipment records of the tape drive and tape automation markets in Japan between 2001 and 2003, as well as market forecast up to 2008. |
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http://www.mindbranch.com/products/R104-20574.html
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| | History of Computing |
| | IBM demonstrated the ability to write 100 GB of data on a single LTO (linear tape open) tape cartridge, the highest tape cartridge capacity in the industry at the time. | | | UNIVAC 1 (universal automatic computer), which is also the first computer to use magnetic tape for storage. | | | This first digital sound system is a close relative of the modern computer magnetic tape, the floppy disk, and the hard disk drive. |
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http://www.usbyte.com/common/history_of_storage.htm
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| | IBM eServer Tape Storage |
| | Linear Tape Open (LTO) technology provides high capacity, fast data transfer rates and reliability for automated storage, storage area networks and network attached storage environments. | | | When comparing cost per GB of storage, tape is still one of the most cost-effective backup technologies. | | | IBM DDS tape drives and autoloaders represent the technology of choice in today's network environment. |
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http://www.pc.ibm.com/ww/eserver/xseries/tape.html
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| | printer.asp?id=51221 |
| | LTO or Linear Tape Open was jointly developed by HP, IBM and Seagate, and Ultrium is one of the two formats based on this technology. | | | DLT or Digital Linear Tape is supported largely by Quantum but HP, Dell, IBM, Fujifilm, Maxell and Exabyte, also provide DLT products. | | | Theres the super DLT format, which is the next big upgrade to DLT, ADR (Advanced Digital Recording), SLR (Scalable Linear Recording), VXA, Mammoth, Travan and Accelis. |
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http://www.pcquest.com/cgi-bin/printer.asp?id=51221
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| | Table_01.html |
| | Optional Scalable Linear Recording (SLR)/DLT/Super Digital Linear Tape (SLDT)/Linear Tape-Open (LTO) tape drives from $509; autoloaders from $3895 | | | Included Exabyte VXA PacketLoader 1 x 10 1U tape library or Exabyte Magnum 1 x 7 LTO autoloader |
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http://www.windowsitpro.com/Files/46613/Table_01.html
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| | Betacam |
| | The only difference between Betamax and Betacam is that the former records in composite format (much like VHS, U-matic, or 1 inch open-reel Type C videotape), while the latter records in component format and at a much higher linear tape speed, resulting in much-higher video and audio quality over Betamax. | | | A 5th audio track is available for cueing, and a linear timecode track is also used on the tape. | | | IMX VTRs such as the MSW-2100M are capable of playing back Digital Betacam cassettes as well as analog Betacam SP cassettes, but can only record to their native IMX cassettes. |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/B/Betacam.htm
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| | Tandberg Data Q2 opg swings to loss on shift to LTO technology - Forbes.com |
| | OSLO (AFX) - Tandberg Data ASA said it swung to a second quarter operating loss on the back of a shift towards Linear Tape-Open (LTO) technology that hits its sales and margins. | | | This situation is expected to have a negative impact on Tandberg Data in the short term, which will last until its new products have achieved sales volume offsetting the declining volumes on the DLT (Digital Linear Tape) and SLR (Scalable Linear Recording) products. | | | Tandberg Data Q2 opg swings to loss on shift to LTO technology |
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http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/afx/2005/08/18/afx2184412.html
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| | Ultrium LTO web site dedicated in providing information on the LTO format |
| | The Ultrium LTO tape format is the implementation of the LTO (Linear Tape Open) Technology that is optimized for high capacity and performance with exceptional reliability in either a stand-alone or an automated environment. | | | Ultrium LTO (Linear Tape Open) technology was developed jointly by HP, IBM and Certance (Seagate) to provide a clear and viable choice in an increasingly complex array of tape storage options. | | | Ultrium LTO technology is an "open format" technology, which means that users will have multiple sources of product and media. |
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http://www.ultriumlto.com
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| | News Release : 20041020 |
| | The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Program was formed by Certance, Hewlett-Packard and IBM to develop and market a powerful new open tape storage architecture, LTO technology. | | | Linear Tape-Open, LTO, and Ultrium are trademarks of Certance, Hewlett Packard and IBM in the US, other countries, or both. | | | New to Ultrium tape technology, LTO Ultrium 3 also features write-once WORM functionality, allowing secure backup and storage of critical data for legal and regulatory compliance. |
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http://www.maxell.co.jp/e/release/20041020.html
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| | Imation First Media Manufacturer to Sell LTO Ultrium Generation 3 Tape Cartridges to Worldwide Customers |
| | About Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Technology LTO technology is a powerful, scaleable, adaptable open tape format created by technology providers Certance, HP, and IBM Corporation to help meet the growing demands of data protection in the midrange to enterprise-class server environments. | | | This ultra-high capacity generation of tape storage products is designed to deliver outstanding performance, capacity and reliability combining the advantages of linear multi-channel, bi-directional formats with enhancements in servo technology, data compression, track layout, and error correction. | | | Imation's LTO Ultrium Generation 3 tape cartridges will offer twice the storage capacity of Generation 2 tape cartridges, with an increase to 800GB capacity compressed (assuming a 2:1 compression) and transfer rates of up to 160MB/second compressed (assuming a 2:1 compression). |
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http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/10-25-2004/0002309166&EDATE=
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| | Integrated Solutions - New Storage Products Address Disaster Recovery Challenges |
| | End users have a number of new technology options to bring their storage systems into compliance, including SATA (serial advanced technology attachment) drives and a new line of LTO (linear tape open) media. | | | "New, large libraries based on emerging tape technologies will be able to offer many terabytes of storage at a fraction of the cost of disk-based technologies." LTO-2 (linear tape open) media provides 200 GB of capacity, compared with 100 GB for LTO media. | | | Still, companies will continue to use tape technology for long-term storage because it is even less expensive than SATA disk technology. |
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http://www.integratedsolutionsmag.com/Articles/2004_10/041012.htm
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| | About Ultrium LTO technology |
| | A6: The Ultrium tape format specification is the implementation of LTO (Linear Tape-Open) Technology optimized for high capacity and performance with outstanding reliability, in either a stand-alone or an automated environment. | | | A13: LTO Technology, or Linear Tape-Open Technology, combines the advantages of linear multi-channel bi-directional tape formats in common usage today with enhancements in the areas of timing based servo, hardware data compression, optimized track layouts and high efficiency error correction code to maximize capacity and performance. | | | As such, the LTO Program is taking a similar approach as it did in 1998 with end users to assess future technology requirements and determine roadmap specifications past Generation 4. |
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http://www.ltoultrium.com/faq.htm
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| | LTO FAQ |
| | LTO Technology, or Linear Tape-Open Technology, combines the advantages of linear multi-channel bi-directional tape formats in common usage today with enhancements in the areas of timing based servo, hardware data compression, optimized track layouts and high efficiency error correction code to maximize capacity and performance. | | | The LTO tape format specification is optimized for high capacity and performance with outstanding reliability, in either a stand-alone or an automated environment. | | | It is our intent that the LTO tape format will meet the needs of the enterprise through single server user on a roadmap, or migration path, which extends well into the next decade. |
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http://www.dynamicsolutions.com/docs/lto/FAQ.htm
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| | LTO - News Room - 07-26-04 |
| | Note: Linear Tape-Open, LTO, the LTO logo, Ultrium, and the Ultrium logo are U.S. trademarks of Certance, HP and IBM in the US, other countries, or both. | | | LTO technology is a powerful, scaleable, adaptable open tape format created by technology providers Certance, HP, and IBM Corporation to help meet the growing demands of data protection in the midrange to enterprise-class server environments. | | | The LTO Ultrium format --the leading midrange super tape drive technology based on analyst data -- upholds the LTO Program's road map of providing users with a high capacity and performance format based on an open-architecture design. |
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http://www.ultrium.com/newsite/html/news_07_26_04.html
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| | Syncsort's Backup Express supports Linear Tape-Open (LTO) technology. |
| | Linear Tape-Open (LTO) technology was developed jointly by HP, IBM and Seagate to provide a clear and viable choice in an increasingly complex array of tape storage options. | | | LTO technology is an "open format" technology, which means that users will have multiple sources of product and media. | | | LTO tape drivers are limited by manufacturer and operating system. |
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http://www.syncsort.com/bex/partners/lto.htm
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| | IBM 3850 Ultrium External Tape Drive |
| | The IBM Ultrium External Tape Drive has a capacity of up to 200 GB with compression (2:1) and adheres to the widely supported Linear Tape-Open™ (LTO) design specification. | | | The IBM Ultrium External Tape Drive features comes with Ultra2/Wide SCSI or Ultra/Wide SCSI interfaces and can attach to IBM and non-IBM servers, workstations, and personal computers. | | | The IBM 3580 has a LCD display and indicators for write protection, tape in use, drive cleaning and data compression. |
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http://www.barryrudolph.com/newtoys/toys/ibmultrium.html
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