Seagate's Viper Drive.Seagate Technology (company) Seagate Technology - A major manufacturer of hard disk drives, founded in 1979 as "Shugart Technology" by Alan F. Shugart and Finis Conner. That name is on the original patents for the 5.25" hard disk drive. , Inc. recently introduced the Viper 200, a new tape drive based on the Ultrium format of Linear Tape Open technology, an open-format specification developed by Seagate Technology, Hewlett-Packard, Co., and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corporation, enabling multiple suppliers to offer multiple products. The tape drive provides the midrange tape market space with a host of features focused on performance, reliability, and data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. . Seagate will support system OEMs, automation manufacturers, and the distribution channel with a family of drive backup solutions. The new product will be available in two SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. configurations (LVD See LVDS. LVD - Low Voltage Differential and HVD (1) (High Voltage Differential) See SCSI and differential signaling. (2) (Holographic Versatile Disc) A high-capacity optical disc from the HVD Forum (www.hvd-forum. ) with native Fibre Channel interfaces planned for release later in the year. Internal, external, autoloader, and automation ready configurations of the product will meet the needs of the midrange server marketplace. The Viper 200 will record up to 200GB of compressed data on a single Ultrium format cartridge at speeds up to 1.9GB per minute (assuming 2:1 data compression). "Leadership in the tape drive market now depends on manufacturers that can provide reliable tape storage solutions for the midrange and enterprise class server environments," said Fara Yale, chief analyst of computer storage service at Gartner Group's Dataquest. "One of the goals of the Linear Tape Open technology initiative was to create open-format specifications with features, so Ultrium-format manufacturers can develop their own feature sets to compete in this marketplace." |
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