3M Announces Technical Specifications for Travan-5; Solutions Ahead for Professional, High-Performance Network Market.ST. PAUL St. Paul as a missionary he fearlessly confronts the “perils of waters, of robbers, in the city, in the wilderness.” [N.T.: II Cor. 11:26] See : Bravery , Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 1996--3M announced specifications today for the next generation of its proprietary Travan minicartridge technology. Travan-5, the fifth in the family of Travan minicartridge platforms to be developed since the introduction of the technology, will feature a native capacity point of 10 gigabytes (GB). To be available in either a single-channel or a three-channel, high-performance option, Travan-5 drives will feature a transfer rate of either 1.2 megabytes-per-second (MB/s) or 3.0 MB/s, respectively. "We expect forthcoming products based on the Travan-5 platform to provide a high-performance, highly reliable and cost-effective solution," said David Sewall, marketing director, Midrange midrange Epidemiology The halfway point or midpoint in a set of observations; for most data, MR is calculated as the sum of the smallest observation and the largest observation, divided by 2; for age data, one is added to the numerator; a midrange is usually Segment, 3M Data Storage Products. "This will position Travan technology very favorably fa·vor·a·ble adj. 1. Advantageous; helpful: favorable winds. 2. Encouraging; propitious: a favorable diagnosis. 3. in the professional network server market." Drives based on the Travan-5 platform are expected to appear on the market in 1997, and will be broadly supported, including offerings from industry leaders such as Seagate Tape Operations and Hewlett-Packard's Colorado Memory Systems division, Sewall added. The Travan licensee companies include Hewlett-Packard's Colorado Memory Systems division, Seagate, Iomega, Exabyte, Tandberg Data Tandberg Data (OSE: TAD) is a company focused on data storage products, especially streamers, headquartered in Oslo, Norway. They are the only company still selling drives that use the QIC format (also known as SLR), but also produce VXA, LTO and DLT products, along with , Sony, Tecmar (formerly Rexon), Pertec Memories, AIWA AIWA Asian Immigrant Women Advocates AIWA Armenian International Women's Association , TEAC TEAC Tetraethylammonium Chloride TEAC Theological Education for the Anglican Communion TEAC Technology Education Association of California TEAC Turbine Engine Analysis Check TEAC Timber Export Advisory Committee TEAC Training & Education Advisory Committee and 3M. Travan technology was invented and patented by 3M. It was first introduced in late 1994, and has since set new standards for minicartridge performance and data storage capacity. Since its introduction, Travan technology has been embraced by users and manufacturers alike as a reliable, cost-effective storage solution. Effective July 1, 1996, 3M will transfer Travan minicartridge manufacturing and marketing to Imation, the new imaging and information company being spun-off by 3M. Imation will be the world's leading supplier of branded removable media In computer storage, removable media refers to storage media which can be removed from its reader device, conferring portability on the data it carries. A removable drive is a reader device for such media. for data storage applications. CONTACT: Fleishman-Hillard, Minneapolis-St. Paul Gary Hornseth, 612/337-0354 Ext. 302 Ken Kadet, 612/337-0354 Ext. 301 |
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