Welcome to our
Guide to Mass Storage 
or its
constituent parts: Optical
Storage page, Magnetic
Storage page
SCSI
Interface
There are a number of
connectors, including high-density, low density, Mac, PowerBook,
Wide, and SCSI-3.
Typical internal cables are 50 or 68 pin ribbon cable. Visit our SCSI guide
for more. Throughput to 160MB/sec.
Host Adapters
DataSure's
Adaptec Host adapters Page
Buslogic
DPT ... Now also owned by Adaptec..
ATTO
CD-Recordable
Yamaha
CD-R Page
featuring 32X read, 8x write, 8X RW
Sony CDU-920S, 2X
HP SureStore 6020i 2x write / 6X read CDR
internal, external, parallel port
Teac 12Xwrite
Visit our CD-Recordables
page for
more.
CD-ROM
Changers
bringing CD-ROM performance to multiple platters
Pioneer DRM-624X 6-disc 4X drive changer
Pioneer Optical Products Page (DRM-7000 700 disc , 1004X 100 disc
jukeboxes)
Nakamichi 4 disc 8X drive changer
Magneto - Optical
Combining with
a fast random access of rotational media and removability ,
capacities to 5.2 GB per platter
uses diode laser to heat media to magnetic coercivity temperature
of rare earth elements in rewritable media, or in some WORM media
the laser is used to burn data onto organic dye substrate.
5.25" form factor
5.2GB
Magneto Optical
Maxoptix 5200
Plasmon MOD520
$2,145.00
US internal $2,245.00 US external
up to
2.6 GB per side, 5 MB/sec max transfer rates Read compatible to 650MB media,
Read/write 1.3GB, 2.3GB,2.6GB,4.1GB,4.6GB,5.2GB for legacy media
access
2.6 GB
Optical
Maxoptix T2600
AUTOMATION
Use in combination
with imaging solutions to improve workflow. HSM solutions to help
optimize performace and automate data management.
Plasmon 520 Series 
average exchange times 6 to 10 seconds
capacities from 104GB to 2.5 TB
WORM and
Multifunction
(Write Once Read Many)
This format has been largely
replaced by the optical, but multifunction drives provide access
to data resident on WORM media.
Pioneer's Multifunction
DE-SH7101/DE-UH7101, used in Medical Imaging, particularly MRI.
Pioneer's Multifunction DE-SH9101 1.7 GB, backward
compatible with DEC-702 media, a migration path for 7101 users.
Sony has the RMO-S570 Multifunction WORM / M-O, external .
Sony SMO-F571 Multifunction WORM / M-O, internal.
WORM 12"
Philips Infinity 6000
series
LD6100 12GB drive;
LF6600 6-disk 1-drive 72GB
LF6602 12-disk, 2-drive 144GB
Sony 500 series
WORM 14" Kodak is discontinuing the 14"
WORM
TAPE
Advantages
include low cost / GB media , low cost / GB drive cost, high
capacity
DLT DLT8000 DLT7000 DLT4000
Capacity20GB to 40GB native.
High Transfer rates, suitable for HSM.
Quantum DLT4000 DLT7000 DLT8000
ADIC's DLT with capacities of 20 and 40 GB, and
up to 10.8 GB / hour sustained transfer rates.
ADIC VLS
DLT400 DLT 280GB Autoloader
ADIC
VLS DLT300 DLT 210GB Autoloader
Conner has the 6GB MS6000dlt
4mm DAT
4mm helical scan high
performance tape drives for the backup and restore of local area
networks (LANs) and for image storage applications. Capacities
range from 2GB to 8GB.
ADIC's DATa 8008
ExaByte EXB-4200
ExaByte EXB-4200 compression
Sony SDK-5200
Sony SDK-5000, compression
Sony SDK-7000, compression, Fast SCSI-2
Tandberg
WangDAT Tape Drives
WangDAT
3400 8GB w/ compression, DDS-2
WangDAT
3200 4 GB , DDS-2
WangDat
3100 2 GB DAT
DDS-2 Autoloaders
ADIC's
SONY
QIC 5.25"
Cartridges, SCSI interface
Wangtek QIC cartridge drives discontinued
Travan
HP Colorado's T-1000
discontinued, some refurbished units available
HP Colorado's T-4000
Iomega's Internal 800 MB Travan,
...
More information on DataSure Travan Page
8mm Tape
Up to 60GB native
ExaByte
EXB-8700 7GB native capacity
ExaByte
EXB-8505XL 7GB native capacity
ExaByte Mamoth
Mamoth Exabyte 8900 20GB native capacity, 180MB/min throughput , 188MB/sec search rate
M-2
Autoloaders
ADIC Autoloader (11 X 14) 154 GB capacity, up to 2 Drives
ExaByte
EXB-10h (10 X 14) 140GB
ExaByte
EXB-210 (11 X 14) 154GB up to 2 drives
ExaByte
EXB-440 (40 X 14) 560GB up to 4 drives
ExaByte
EXB-480 (80 X 14) 1.12TB up to 4 drives
SCSI, FW-SCSI,
Ultra SCSI, Differential, LVD
IBM, Fujitsu, Seagate, Quantum, Western Digital
RAID Redundant
Array of Inexpensive Disks
Removable Disk
ZIP drive 100MB / 250MB per disk . SCSI / MAC
and Parallel Port, USB
Iomega JAZ drive 1GB / 540MB per disk SCSI
9 - Track
Overland Data
Qualstar
Solutions for Pertec and SCSI interface
Densities available include 800, 1600, 3200, 6250 BPI
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