DAT wins support

Seagate is planning to develop a new family of tape drives based on the Digital Data Storage-4 (DDS-4).

DAT drives utilising DDS-4 technology will reportedly offer storage capacities of up to 20GB native and 40GB with compression, and transfer rates between 1MB/s and 3MB/s native.

To continue delivering tape solutions to DAT users, the DDS-4 drive will according to Seagate maintain backward-read compatability DDS-DC and read-and-write-backward compatability with DDS-2 and DDS-3 format tapes.

Seagate is expected to make a more detailed product announcement in the first half of 1999.

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