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How many of you have made the mistake of not backing up your home PC, only to have a disk failure cause you to lose 3 months of work? Or have lost your phone, and with it, 6 months of...
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Coming soon.. NanoPure MediaTM is premium LTO media certified via our patent-pending NanoPureTM process. The NanoPureTM process cleans, tests, and calibrates every cartridge before first use, allowing users of any tape hardware brand to guarantee they are using the highest quality,...
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MagStor at NAB Show Las Vegas 2022
Come see MagStor at NAB Las Vegas (April 23-27), booth N4439 use Guest Pass Code: LV2794 for Free registration.
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We are pleased to announce the launch of our new product, a line of MagStor LTO9 (FH) Full Height tape drives. LTO9 FH Thunderbolt-3 Desktop drives, LTO9 FH 12G SAS Desktop and RM (Rack Mount) drives, LTO9 8Gb FC Desktop and RM (Rack...
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The topic of the preferred mounting orientation of tape drives has been discussed for decades, clearly the drive mounting orientation will alter the head mass effect on the servo loop performance when the head is suspended by the actuator or resting on the guides. Over the years, number of tests were conducted on various DLT drives and even decades ago, the data showed a preferred drive mounting orientation can influence drive performance. Considering that quick review of the LTO8 shows the similar drive architecture to DLT, the question has remained unanswered if the drive mounting orientation can affect the drive performance. This study was recently requested by MagStor to quantify the effect of the mounting orientation on the LTO8 drive performance. The tests were conducted on a new IBM LTO8 IBM Tape Drive supplied by Magstor, (Magstor PN SAS-HL8-8088), the standard Tape drive Doctor advanced test routines was used to conduct the tests.
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