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1ST 2.5-GBYTE QIC CARTRIDGE TAPE DRIVE BOWS
This month, Tecmar Technologies Inc. in Longmont, Colo.
unveiled the industry’s first universal QIC tape drive, offering
2.5 Gbyte of storage compatibility with all major DC6000-class data
cartridge drive formats in use today.
More than 11 million QIC drives have been installed worldwide. DC6000
tape technology is still widely used as a software distribution standard
by major OEM system suppliers, including IBM and Sun Microsystems. In
fact, every AS/400 shipped by IBM is equipped with a QIC tape drive.
Freeman Associates places the value of the DC6000 market at $162 million
in 1996.
The company’s new Wangtek 52000 Universal QIC drive provides a
native capacity of 2.5 Gbytes, based on the QIC standard by utilizing
the widely available DC9250 data cartridge. The drive offers a standard
SCSI-2 connection with an impressive sustained data rate of 17 megabytes
per minute, more than 1 gigabyte per hour.
Coupled with linear recording, data integrity is further enhanced with
read-after-write verification, ensuring that the information can be
easily and accurately restored in the case of any data loss incidents.
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