I have a vendor telling me that I should direct connect LTO-5 tape drives instead of connecting it to our existing FC fabric for performance reasons. For several reasons this sounds like a stupid idea ...

A recently released standard for linear tape-open—LTO-9—sets the scene for faster drives with more capacity, but are they a must-have? With the recent release of the linear tape–open 9 (LTO-9) ...

If you have more than one state-of-the-art tape drive behind your LAN-based backup server, chances are you have too many. That’s right. If you’ve got a LAN-based backup server, and behind it is more ...

Last Adic Scalar i500 I used had 6x LTO4 drives, about once every month or 2 it would ask for a cleaning tape for a single drive. So not very frequently at all. We also took really good care of our ...

Storage this cheap sounds fake until you learn it comes with a few industrial-strength catches.

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UNITEX Corporation (Representative: Emi Kosugi, President / Office: Machida, Tokyo), the leader in the computer storage space for over 30 years, is pleased to announce today ...

IBM Introduces the Industry's Fastest One Terabyte Storage Tape Drive New IBM System Storage TS1130 Tape Drive Delivers New Capacity and Performance for Clients ARMONK,NY - IBM today introduced the ...

The maker of tape backup products signs an agreement to acquire Benchmark Storage, a partner that sold a type of tape drive Quantum developed. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer Stephen ...

Taking on a refrigerator-sized minicomputer is not for the faint-hearted, but [Usagi Electric] has done it with a DEC PDP-11/44. He’s not doing it in half measures either, for his machine is tricked ...