2024-12-23

tape backup

Data Storage: Tape Drives

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  • Tape Drives Quantum Corporation
    Supplier of half-inch cartridge tape drives and developer of tape backup and archiving technologies.
    www.quantum.com
  • Exabyte Corporation
    Data storage devices including 8mm and Mammoth technology tape drives, automated tape libraries, and media.
    www.exabyte.com
  • Spectra Logic Corporation
    Offers high-capacity, automated, robotic tape libraries for data safety and recovery at large data centers.
    www.spectralogic.com
  • OnStream, Inc.
    Manufacturer of affordable, high-capacity removable storage solutions for PC servers, workstations, and power desktops.
    www.onstream.com
  • Breece Hill Technologies, Inc.
    Supplier of automated tape libraries used in backing up, securing and archiving information.
    www.breecehill.com
  • Ecrix Corporation
    Offering VXA data storage tape drives and VXAtape media.
    www.ecrix.com
  • Data Devices International
    Tape certifiers, inspectors, 3480 / 3490 tape equipment. Supplies, degaussers. Export shipments. Formats serviced 4mm, 8mm, 1/4, QIC.
    www.datadev.com
  • ATL Products, Inc.
    Supplier of midrange DLT automated tape library systems for the network server, midrange and mainframe computer markets.
    www.atlp.com
  • Tapedisk
    We make tapes work like disks.
    www.tapedisk.com/index.html
  • BackupWorks.com
    Specializing in sales, service, and repair of mass data storage systems.
    www.backupworks.com
  • Pinetree Peripherals Inc.
    Repairs and sells STK and other IBM compatible tape drives.
    www.pine1nc.com
  • Peripheral Laboratories
    Sales, services, and repairs for DLTs, 4mm DAT drives, autoloaders, libraries, and 8mm tape drives.
    www.periphlab.com
  • Advanced SDLT Tape Storage
    Distributes Quantum Super DLT 220, DLT1, DLT 8000 drives, media, autoloaders, and more.
    www.sdlttapestorage.com
  • MP Tapes
    Makes IBM-compatible (3480/90E) half-inch cartridge tape drives, including rackmount and desktop form factors.
    www.mptapes.com
  • InStock, Inc.
    Offers a range of tape storage solutions and data storage systems like tape drives, autoloaders, tape libraries, and more.
    www.instockinc.com
  • ElectroValue
    Offers 9 track and 3480/3490 tape drive packages for the pc.
    www.electrovalueinc.com
  • SourceTek Systems Inc.
    Offers tape solutions, disk solutions, and system enhancement products.
    www.sourceteksystems.com
  • TCG, Inc.
    Buys and sells new and used Memorex Telex and Sutmyn equipment, and open system disk arrays.
    www.tcgsales.com
  • Super Technologies
    Specializing in tape backup sales, and offering other storage products.
    www.supertechnologies.com
  • Eyecote International
    Supplier of degaussers for hard drives, computer tapes, cartridges, and most other forms of magnetic media.
    www.degausser.info
  • Tech Support & Services Inc.
    QIC, 4mm DAT & 8mm H/S tape drive repair and service, including authorized factory repair for Wangtek, WangDAT, and Tecmar.
    www.tsli.com
  • Moneke Inc.
    Source for tape drive parts, sales, and repairs.
    www.moneke.com
  • Xcerta [SPONSOR]
    Manufacturer of 9-Track, 3480/3490/3490e and 3590/3590e tape drives for mainframes and PCs.
    www.xcerta.com
  • Tape Drives 4U [SPONSOR]
    Seller of new and rebuilt half inch tape drives.
    www.tapedrives4u.com
  • Interface Data
    Sales of tape drives from Xcerta, Fujitsu, and M4 Data.
    www.interface-data.com
  • Virtual Tape Library
    Virtual tape solutions for backing up and restoring data faster.
    www.virtual-tape.com
  • Advanced Tape Drive Parts
    New and refurbished 9-track, 3480/3490/3490e and 3590/3590e tape drive parts.
    www.advancedtapedriveparts.com
  • Oak Systems
    Offering the Fastback 59T tape drive with a storage capacity of up to 50GB native and 100GB compressed.
    www.fastback59.com
  • Equiptek
    Inexpensive internal tape backup for any PC.
    www.eqtek.com
  • US Tape Media
    Specializing in tape media, tape drives, and network storage devices, including tape libraries, network attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN).
    www.ustapemedia.com
  • J & J Peripherals
    Datasonix Pereos tape drive and accessories.
    www.jj-peripherals.com
  • RC Electronics
    Specializes in the sales and support of tape drive systems and tape media.
    www.tapedrives.rcusa.com

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Which Backup Media Should You Use?

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Using external hard drives for data backups

For small businesses, buying and using an external hard drive for data backups is the method I recommend. External hard drives are cheap compared to tape drive systems ; you can get one for several hundred dollars. They’re also easy to use; in many cases, all you have to do is plug the hard drive into your computer’s USB port. And while hard drives do fail, their failure rate is much lower than that of backup media such as CDs.

Using CD-Roms as data backups
Using CD-Roms as data backups is popular. Blank CDs are inexpensive, and copying data onto CDs is easy. However, this is the most unreliable method of all the data backup methods listed here. Who hasn’t had the experience of putting a CD into a drive only to find that the data is unreadable and the disk “doesn’t work”? CDs, like the floppy disks they’ve replaced, have a limited shelf life. I don’t recommend this method of data backup for any small business. If you are writing your data backup files onto CDs, make sure that you make (and keep) multiple copies over time.

Using tapes as data backups
Tape backups are ten thousand times as reliable as CD-Roms, but tape drives and their associated media are much more expensive than CD-Rom writers and CDs. A good tape drive can still cost over $1000, and individual tapes for the drive can cost up to $40 each. If you can afford the equipment, however, tape backup is far and away the best backup method.

Using Online backup services as data backups
There are many companies offering online backup services, but I can’t recommend this method. Besides the potential of bandwidth problems, there are just too many security issues that have yet to be dealt with. Firstly, the method is only as reliable as the company offering the online backup service, and Internet service companies have been coming and going faster than the common cold lately. Secondly, if your business data is sensitive, (and whose isn’t?), why would you want to put it on the ‘Net?

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