Sun Drives Terabyte Backup

By Alex Handy

July 16, 2008 — Sun Microsystems has hit 1 terabyte. While the hard drive world has been dancing around a terabyte for over a year now, Sun introduced Monday the StorageTek T10000B, a tape backup drive that uses terabyte cartridges.

The drive can author a full terabyte cartridge in two and a half hours, but Sun is offering a sports model of cartridge that can access and read data at a faster rate.

Existing Sun customers who have already standardized on the T10000 series of drives and media will be happy to hear that they don't need to purchase any new media for the T10000B. Sun claims that existing T10000 cartridges can be upgraded to double their capacity. The T10000B can reformat existing T10000 tapes and upgrade the data density to a full terabyte.

With 120MB per second throughput speed, and a lifespan of 360 full-file accesses per tape, the T10000B is aimed at increasing the life of both media and the drive itself. Sun claims that the T10000B feeds tape at a slower speed than previous drives, yet loses no access speed. Due to higher data density, the read heads of the T10000B drive can maintain high data access speeds without the need to tear through tape a few feet at a time.

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