Design-wise, it is pretty standard stuff. A 19-inch rack, a standard tape drive from Kennedy, a power supply, and some cards. The box takes 240 V, so the computer didn’t get powered up, ...

I recently recommended that a customer use an external hard drive as a backup device when they remarked, “You know, I don’t think I really know what a hard drive ...

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.

MagStor's Thunderbolt 5 LTO drive builds on its 2020 Thunderbolt 3 model; TB5 certainly adds speed but what's the real-world benefit for tape? There's no word on pricing, but it's unlikely to be cheap ...

Both drives cost the same, yet the OnStream offers 50 percent more native capacity per tape, its cost per GB is lower, and it operates without rendering the Mac unresponsive. Ecrix VXA-1 FireWire ...

A backup tape drive is one peripheral where cost-cutting may not be in your best interest. A backup system needs to be as convenient as possible; if it’s a hassle, you won’t be inclined to use it.

Many in IT believe the future of storage is entirely disk and tape "is just for archiving" — but not IBM. On Wednesday, the company launched three new tape drives, including a tape ...

Tape motion is detected by a home-made rotary encoder connected to the original mechanical counter’s belt drive. To keep the pin count down, [DerSchatten13] multiplexed the LEDs on the display.

With the recent release of the linear tape–open 9 (LTO-9) standard, tape drives with increased capacity and speed should be available soon, but that doesn’t mean users of tape drives should ...

Now, for a long time, I've been wondering if I could connect it, or another LTO tape drive, via USB 3.x A while back, I found this reference to an accessory on some of the IBM/Lenovo LTO-5 drives: ...

Tape storage continues to be a standard for long-term archival needs due to its durability and capacity, and the Thunderbolt 5 LTO drive is designed for use in data-heavy environments such as ...