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Monday, July 14. 2008

Today we have announced the 1 TB tape drive: Sun Microsystems Announces World's First One Terabyte Tape Storage Drive. The the T10000B delivers 120 MB/sec throughput with 1 TB native. The next competitor (LTO4) has 800 GB native.The only disadvantage: This tape drives are enterprise hardware and build to last ... so the pricetag is $37.000. So don´t wait for it as you backup solution at home.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Sun/Oracle at 15:59 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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If I were mean, I would point you nose onto IBM's latest drive (same capacity, more speed):
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/IBM-Bandlaufwerk-schreibt-1-TByte-mit-160-MByte-s--/meldung/110919

Hmm, but then I just did... sorry

#1 Carsten+Aulbert on 2008-07-15 16:14 (Reply)

We announced it a day earlier .... and you get it a month earlier

#2 Joerg+M. (Homepage) on 2008-07-15 16:28 (Reply)

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