[Sunhelp] High Capacity Tape Drives

[Bjrn Ramqvist]

Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > One in particular that looked good was the Compaq 50GB AIT
> > drive - that's
> > 50 gigs on a single tape! More with compression turned on.
> 
> Uhm, no (well, I'm 95% sure, anyway).  :(  Compaq's AIT drives are all
> AIT-1, which is 25GB native, 50GB compressed.  Some of the AIT-1 drives can
> take the longer tapes, for a native capacity of 35GB.  The newer AIT-2
> drives have a higher capacity (I can't remember how big, but bigger).

Euhm... I think you'd better check again on that one. I'm 99.9% positive
I saw a Compaq AIT-2 50/100 GB drive on their webside yesterday.
:-)

(I know for sure a university nearby runs a Compaq AIT-2 drive)


	/Regards, Bjorn