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how many tape drives had SATA interface??
I bought an internal DLT drive at a computer swap meet, thinking it was
SAS interface. When I got it home, I found it was actually SATA. Quantum made them with SCSI, SATA or even USB. Nowadays you see tape drives with fibre channel (copper) even though the drives are mostly too slow to need that bandwidth. I found it wouldn't work on an Intel server board SATA sockets, I had to plug in a simple PCIE SATA adapter card. Anyway, works out cheaper than an SAS adapter and those stupid mini-SAS cables that fan out to 4 plugs. |
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how many tape drives had SATA interface??
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I bought an internal DLT drive at a computer swap meet, thinking it was SAS interface. When I got it home, I found it was actually SATA. Quantum made them with SCSI, SATA or even USB. Nowadays you see tape drives with fibre channel (copper) even though the drives are mostly too slow to need that bandwidth. I found it wouldn't work on an Intel server board SATA sockets, I had to plug in a simple PCIE SATA adapter card. Anyway, works out cheaper than an SAS adapter and those stupid mini-SAS cables that fan out to 4 plugs. There are some tape drives here that go at a decent speed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open The speeds there are high enough, choosing an interface isn't as easy as it used to be. Paul |
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