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06:00 - Tuesday 25 February 2003 by Jürgen Heyer

Up To 50GB Capacity
Manufacturer	Dell	Onstream	Seagate	Tandberg	Tandberg
Product	Powervault 110T DLT VS 80	ADR2 60Si	Tapestor DAT 40	DLT VS 80	SLR100
Price	$1,269.00	$754.00	$825.00	$1,319.00	$2,119.00
Price per tape (maximal capacity)	$83.70	$64.80	$19.00	$99.00	$103.50
Technical Data
Technology	DLT IV	ADR	DDS-4	DLT IV	SLR
Capacity compressed / uncompressed	40/80 GByte	30/60 GByte	20/40 GByte	40/80 GByte	50/100 GByte
Interface	SCSI LVD/SE, 68-pin	SCSI LVD/SE, 68-pin	SCSI LVD/SE, 68-pin	SCSI LVD/SE, 68-pin	SCSI LVD/SE, 68-pin
Continuous data rate (uncompressed)	3 MByte/s	4 MByte/s	2.75 MByte/s	3 MByte/s	5 MByte/s
Driver support Windows NT/2000/XP /MacOS/Linux/Netware	yes/yes/no /no/no/no	yes/yes/yes /no/yes/no	yes/yes/yes /no/no/no	yes/yes/yes /no/no/yes	yes/yes/no /no/no/yes
More Than 50GB Capacity
Manufacturer	ExaByte	HP	Onstream	Seagate	Tandberg
Product	VXA-2	SDLT 320	ADR2 120Si	Viper 200	SDLT 320
Price	$999.99	$4,999.00	$999.00	$4,995.00	$4,936.50
Price per tape (maximal capacity)	$89.00	$150.00	$94.50	$89.00	$214.20
Technical Data
Technology	VXA	SDLT	ADR	LTO/Ultrium	SDLT
Capacity uncompressed / compressed	80/160 GByte	160/320 GByte	60/120 GByte	100/200 GByte	160/320 GByte
Interface	SCSI LVD/SE, 68-pin	SCSI LVD/SE, 68-pin	SCSI LVD/SE, 68-pin	SCSI LVD/SE, 68-pin	SCSI LVD/SE, 68-pin
Continuous data rate (uncompressed)	6 MByte/s	16 MByte/s	4 MByte/s	16 MByte/s	16 MByte/s
Driver support Windows NT/2000/XP /MacOS/Linux/Netware	yes/yes/yes /yes/yes/no	yes/yes/no /no/no/no	yes/yes/yes /no/yes/no	yes/yes/no /no/no/no	yes/yes/yes /no/no/yes

Glossary

Net Capacity indicates the storage capacity for data that can be stored to a tape in uncompressed mode.

QIC : Quarter Inch Cartridge specifies a standard for storage cartridges with _" data tapes.

SCSI/ LVD : Small Computer Standard Interface/ Low Voltage Differential. Hardware interface (SCSI) for peripherals with differential data transfer. This allows cable sizes of up to 12 meters long.