tape drive

"I'm taking the system down to work on that bug in the tape drive."

Currently, American companies dominate the small but growing tape drive market.

Most tape drives now include some kind of data compression.

Some also support tape drives, a common backup choice for business.

Wouldn't it be great if all computers came with a tape drive?

As a result, tape drives have very slow average seek times.

For the same reason, tape drives give me the willies.

Tape drives cannot be used as the main means of storing data in a computer.

But tape drives are slow and, for many people, intimidating.

For example, backing up a single database to 4 tape drives at once.

It also became a major manufacturer of tape drives and related products.

Some new tape drives are even faster than modern hard disks.

Tape drives and workstations were also included in the system.

That's more than three times the capacity of any midrange tape drive technology.

There was the antique pharmacy equipment, and a new tape drive for the computer.

The device that performs actual writing or reading of data is a tape drive.

Its place in history is assured as it was the first tape drive for a commercially sold computer.

The first 3480 tape drives were introduced in 1984.

The 9402 is similar to the 6157 Tape Drive but much more condensed.

Nevertheless, some 3480 tape drives can record on 3490E media.

Hardware compression is supported if the tape drive supports it.

The company produced slides for tape drives and copy machines.

But many 3490E tape drives can only read/write 36-track tapes.

It provided only a single line display but replaced the earlier card drives with a tape drive.

But the streaming tape drives are constantly gaining in capacity.