Tape Drives

Tape - 4mm

The following applies in the table below:

Capacity:Typical tape capacity in Gbytes (2:1 compression)
Operating System Certified:Y - Direct integration, no operating system database changes
N - Will not work or needs device driver
M - Will work but requires operating system database changes
A - Will work but uses unorthadox methods for integration.

Manufacturer

Part Number

Capacity

OpenVMS

OSF/1

NT

SunOS

Solaris

Irix

AIX

HPUX

Seagate

STD18000N

8

Y

M

Y

M

M

Y

Y

Y

Seagate

STD124000N

24

Y

M

Y

M

M

Y

Y

Y

Sony

SDT7000

8

Y

M

Y

M

M

Y

Y

Y

Sony

SDT9000

24

Y

M

Y

M

M

Y

Y

Y

Sony

SDT10000

40

Y

M

Y

M

M

Y

Y

Y

Manufacturer

Seagate

Seagate

Sony

Sony

Sony

Part number

STD18000N

STD124000N

SDT7000

SDT9000

SDT10000

Compatibility

DDS-DC/1/2

DDS-DC/1/2/3

DDS-DC/1/2

DDS-DC/1/2/3

DDS-DC/1/2/3/4

Capacity (Gb)

8

24

8

24

40

Media rate (Mb/s)

1.1

2.2

1.1

2.2

4.8

SCSI rate (Mb/s)

10

10

10

20

40

Cache (kb)

1024

2048

1024

2048

4096

Number of Tracks

Helical

Helical

Helical

Helical

Helical

Compression

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Narrow/single

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

Wide/single

N/A

N/A

N/A

YES

YES

Narrow/diff

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Wide/diff

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

SCA-2

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Wide/ultra/single

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

YES

Wide/ultra/diff

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Narrow/LVD

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Wide/LVD

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

YES

Ultra SCA-2

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Form factor

3.5" FH

3.5" FH

3.5" FH

3.5" FH

3.5" FH

Note:The Seagate DDS-4 drive will be available within 2 months.
We have available ADIC libraries for all of the above drives.
MW Consultancy can supply media and cleaning tapes for the above tape drives.