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To: RealMuLan who wrote (6572)	12/11/1997 3:14:00 PM
From: Will Cunningham	Respond to of 9124

DLT DESCRIPTION for those who are new and curious: About DLT Technology DLT technology has become the worldwide defacto industry standard in the mid-range tape market. In addition to Hewlett Packard, DLT has been widely adopted by a broad range of industry leaders including major OEMs such as Compaq, Dell, Digital, IBM, Silicon Graphics Inc., and Sun Microsystems. Tape library OEMs that have announced, and are shipping DLT drives as part of their tape library line are Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC), ATL, Exabyte, Overland Data Inc. (ODI), Breece Hill and StorageTek. Major distributors offering DLT product line are Arrow-Schweber, Bell Micro, Globelle, Ingram Micro, Marshall Industries, and Wyle. The DLT 7000 tape drive is Quantum's most recent offering in its renowned tape drive family. The DLT 7000 product provides an industry-leading capacity of 70 gigabytes (GB) (compressed) and a sustained data transfer rate of up to 10 megabytes (MB)/second. The DLT 7000 tape drive features a SCSI-2 fast/wide interface with single-ended and differential options. With regard to reliability, the stand-alone DLT 7000 tape drive features a head life of 30,000 hours, media durability of 1,000,000 tape passes, and an overall Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) of 300,000 hours at a 20 percent duty cycle. The DLT 7000 drive is read and write compatible with all Quantum's previous generation DLT tape drives. In addition to providing backward compatibility with legacy DLT tape drives, DLT technology offers a well-defined path for future performance and capacity improvements that will ensure its longevity in the marketplace.