It's 2025 and after almost 20 years, Sony has announced that it is ending Blu-ray media production as well as MiniDiscs, MiniDiscs data and miniDV tape, a few months after it got rid of its 5.5TB ...

August 2014, Milpitas, CA. HighPoint Technologies, a pioneering force in the storage industry for over 19 years, proudly has officially launched LTO tape drive support for Thunderbolt TM 2 RAID ...

Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and storage solutions, is unveiling the Spectra OSW-2400 Optical SAS Switch, a groundbreaking innovation in data center tape storage connectivity.

See LTO and open reel. Tape has always been more economical than ... separated by a space called an "interrecord gap" or "interblock gap." Drive speed is measured in inches per second (ips).

The OSW-2400 switch supports current-generation SAS-3 tape drives including LTO-9 and IBM TS1170 Enterprise Tape Drives and provides backward compatibility with SAS-2 devices. In addition, Spectra ...

Based on the Serial-Attached SCSI 4.0 (SAS-4) standard, the OSW-2400 switch provides up to 48 24G lanes operating at 22.5 Gb/s, delivering 1.08 Tb/s of bandwidth, or an aggregate data transfer rate of ...