If you know how it feels to lose data, you know how important and worthwhile it is to perform backups. And if you’ve been lucky enough so far to never suffer preventable data loss, just the thought of ...

If you think of a 1960s mainframe computer, it’s likely that your mental image includes alongside the cabinets with the blinkenlights, a row of reel-to-reel tape drives. These refrigerator-sized units ...

Some people may tell you that speed doesn’t matter when it comes to tape drives. If you use the drive for desktop backup, you can simply start the process when you leave for the day, and by the time ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As do other vendors of tape storage drives and media, Sony faces the reduced market appeal of tape-based data protection. Relentless increases in the demand for storage capacity, combined with the ...

IBM today introduced what it claims is the highest-capacity and most powerful tape storage device in the world, the TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive 3592. Compared with the specifications of Storage ...

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 ...