With the retirement of the Alpha Tru64 workstations, most of our tape drives are offline now. We can still make them available on Linux workstations with advance notice. Here's a table of tape formats available at macCHESS:
Tape formats currently supported at MacCHESS:
capacity transfer rate (uncompressed) 8mm Exabyte 8500 5 GB 0.5 MB/s 4mm DAT DDS-2 4 GB <0.5 MB/s DDS-3 12 GB 1 MB/s DDS-4 20 GB 3 MB/s DLT (Digital Linear Tape) DLT 4000 20 GB 1.5 MB/s LTO Ultrium Ultrium 100 GB 16 MB/s
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