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 ...

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 ...

With all the chaos going on these days with breaches left right and center, I'm resurrecting my old LTO-2 tape drive (UW SCSI 68-pin D connector). Now, for a long time, I've been wondering if I could ...

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 ...

Quantum, a global manufacturer of tape backup and data archive solutions, recently released the Quantum DLT VS160, a tabletop, half-high form-factor tape drive. The device is part of the company's DLT ...

Clay Johnson writes: "I was unable to get OnStream's FireWire 30 tape drive - packaged with Retrospect - to work. OnStream so far refuses to replace or repair the drive, stating it is a 'known' ...

IBM announced the general availability of the industry’s first magnetic tapes and drives based on the LTO-9 Ultrium specification for massive data capacity and resilience. The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) 9 ...

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 ...

Nutter offers advice on moving from one tape library to another, while moving to a new version of the software. Due to added demands for backing up our servers, a new tape library was purchased. Since ...

Lately, customers are giving me flak about tape drives. Some simply don’t want to spend the time or money swapping tapes and moving the appropriate tape off-site; others just don’t think they are cool ...

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 ...