A new tape model from Quantum comes out about every two years, and it arrived as expected early this year in the form of the DLT-S4. The first and most apparent novelty is its name: Quantum dropped ...

With the drop in hard drive prices, many system administrators are faced with more data to back up than before. With the drop in hard drive prices, many system administrators are faced with more data ...

Legal challenges are inflaming the otherwise staid tape backup industry, with the two storage companies filing lawsuits against each other. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Looking to replace my old reliable DDS3 Tape backup System with something current and expandable for the future. <BR><BR>We have a small agency with <10 people and currently backing up about ...

Tape storage still plays a significant role as a backup tool in network data storage even as disk prices are falling because new tape storage products from vendors such as Advanced Digital Information ...

Disk is the latest and greatest storage technology and gets all the hype, but for data backup, IT manager Peter Boyes prefers "old reliable": tape. For six years, he relied on tape backups to protect ...

With ever-expanding amounts of data to back up, it's good to see backup media are keeping pace. We take a look at four tape backup options with more than 200GB capacity per tape. The amount of data we ...

I'm thinking of getting an external DLT scsi tape drive, probably a DLT4000 from quantum or compaq or dell or what have you, off ebay used likely. <BR><BR>these seem to mostly have an external ...

Like many IT executives, Eric Eriksen, chief technology officer at New York-based Deloitte Consulting, would like tape to just go away. The added cost of managing tape backup systems, slow and ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...