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 ...

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 ...

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' ...

I recently started a new job (about 2 months) and now have a Dell Poweredge 2800 to manage that has a HP Dat72 drive for backup using Veritas. In the past few weeks the drive clean light has come on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in the day: Consumers stopped using magnetic tape storage so long ago that many reading this are likely too young to know what it is. However, its ability to store massive amounts of data on ...