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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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The tape drives themselves are thoroughly inspected, cleaned and brought to original factory specification in our ISO9002 certified refurbishment center.
Tape drives are assigned and re-assigned as backup and restore operations dictate.
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Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper
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Although most tapes are used for archiving rather than routine updating, some drives allow rewriting in place if the byte count does not change.
Luckily most tape drives and libraries support this configurable parameter.
Tape drives are dynamically allocated to the servers that need them.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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The issue is with multiple tape drives allocated sequentially based upon the order of NT discovery.
SRS assigns tape drives on the fly within the SAN.
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Rob Verdann,
Afterdark Removalist
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Tape drives can only read from tapes sequentially, so if you want to retrieve a specific piece of information from a tape, you have to retrieve all the information that comes before it on the tape.
Administrators are alerted to problems with tapes or tape drives and can recover corrupted data before it is too late.
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Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman
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Unlike tape drives, the Zip drive is reliable and is a lot like using floppies for backups with the exception that Zip drives can hold up to 100 MB of data.
Typically tape drives are only SCSI and at most SCSI 2 which means that they are only transferring data at 5MB/sec.
OnStream tape drives in internal, external, and rack mount versions, with IDE or SCSI interfaces.
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