Bringing your data home on tape


Tape

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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