Data storage - news briefs
Data storage - news briefs
Plasmon takes Cygnet 12-inch
Plasmon IDE has completed its acquisition of the optical library manufacturer Cygnet Storage Solutions. Plasmon will incorporate its 12 inch optical TrueWorm Technology drives and optical media into the Cygnet-developed mass storage libraries.
The soon-to-be-released Plasmon 1800 series of optical libraries will also support the company's fourth generation 12 inch drives and media. The high-end removable data storage solution will target utilities, government agencies and financial institutions.
With Plasmon's new 30GB drive, a 141-slot drive can deliver up to 42TB storage capacity on the 12 inch WORM media. There will be three 12 inch library models ranging from 22 to 141 platters, and incorporating one to five optical drives. Plasmon expects the storage capacity to rise to 4.2TB with the addition of the 30GB drive. The libraries will range from $210,000 to $440,000.
Super tape for ATL
Quantum's ATL Products company has unveiled its higher capacity Super DLTtape technology for networked computers.
The first generation Super DLTtape drive will have more than 100GB of uncompressed storage capacity on a single cartridge, will have a native transfer rate faster than 10Mbps, and will be backwards compatible with Quantum's existing DLTtape family.
Quantum's Super DLTtape technology is aiming to build on DLTtape's status as a de facto archiving standard for mid-range servers. Like its DLTtape predecessors, Super DLTtape will support operating systems and platforms such as UNIX, Linux, Netware, Mac OS and Windows NT, 98 and 2000.