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STORAGE TECHNOLOGY AND DATA GENERAL ADOPT DLT TAPE DRIVES
April was a particularly good month for Quantum Corp.
of Milpitas, Calif. and its tape drive and library operation in Shrewsbury,
Mass. Quantum bought the operation from Digital Equipment Corp. a couple
of years ago. In April, both Data General Corp. of Westboro, Mass. and
Storage Technology Corp. of Louisville, Colo. announced their support
for the digital linear tape (DLT) product produced solely by Quantum.
Data General will offer Quantum’s DLT 4000 family of tape drive
products including the DLT 4000 tape drive and the DLT 4500 and DLT
4700 tape autoloader products. The products enable Data General to offer
backup solutions with capacities ranging from 20 gigabytes to 140 Gbytes.
Storage Technology will incorporate the Quantum’s tape drives
in its 9710 Automated Cartridge System for hierarchical storage management,
archive and backup environments. The tape drive enables the cartridge
system to store up to 11.7 terabytes of uncompressed data and can accommodate
between 252 and 588 tape cartridges.
A key market for the Storage Technology system is check-image archival
for the financial industry. The combination of the Quantum DLT 4000
tape drive and the StorageTek 9710 enables one library to accommodate
seven years' worth of check images at a site that captures approximately
170,000 items per day.
These two suppliers together with Hewlett-Packard Company of Greeley,
Colo. assures the future for the DLT tape format. DLT has one advantage
over DAT, the other contender for the midrange tape back-up market,
capacity. Today, DLT libraries offer 20 Gbytes per cartridge as compared
with 2 to 4 Gbytes per cartridge for DAT.
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