Trakker: here is what I saw earlier.
It looks like the tape is for the servers. But 6MB/s
still sounds pretty impressive.
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Exabyte Corp today announced the first significant original equipment
manufacturer (OEM) supply agreement for its new-generation Mammoth 8mm Tape Drive. The company said that it will
provide Mammoth drives to Apple Computer, Inc. for inclusion in that company's new line of Apple Network Servers.
This agreement marks the first time Exabyte has provided products to Apple.
"We are very excited to have Apple as a first-time customer and to supply them with Mammoth," said Peter D.
Behrendt, Exabyte's chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer. "With the incorporation of Mammoth
into the Apple Network Server line, we can broaden the reach of Exabyte products and appeal to a significant new
group of end users.
"We congratulate the Apple team for being the first among major OEMs currently qualifying Mammoth to bring the
product to market," Behrendt added.
Mammoth is Exabyte's newest 8mm tape drive. With capacity of up to 40 gigabytes per single data cartridge and a
6-megabytes-per-second transfer rate, Mammoth stores nearly 3 times the amount of data at 6 times the speed of
previous-generation 8mm tape drives.* With Mammoth, end users can back up 21 gigabytes of data per hour, making the
drive twice as fast as its closest competitor and the fastest product in its class. Developed and designed entirely by
Exabyte, Mammoth features the highest reliability (200,000 hours mean-time-between-failure) of any 8mm tape drive to
date, and is unique in being compatible with virtually all of the more than one million 8mm tape drives in use in the
field today. Mammoth is designed to provide high-capacity and extremely rapid backup for storage-intensive
applications such as multimedia, imaging, large databases and transaction processing.
Headquartered in Boulder, Colo., Exabyte Corp. designs, manufactures and markets a full range of tape storage
products: 8mm and minicartridge tape drives, 8mm and 4mm tape libraries, and recording media. Exabyte is the world's
largest independent manufacturer focused solely on tape storage products, which it markets through OEMs, distributors
and resellers.
* -- All capacities and transfer rates cited in this press release are compressed, and assume a 2:1 compression ratio. |
