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Repairing and Upgrading Your PC
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Repairing and Upgrading Your PC

by Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson
March 2006
Beginner to intermediate
448 pages
16h 7m
English
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Tape Drives

Although corporate data centers still use tape drives for backing up, tape drives are no longer a mainstream technology for home and small business PCs, if indeed they ever were. For corporations, the advantages of high-end tape drives—extreme reliability, robust error detection and correction, high capacity, and speed—outweigh the disadvantages. For homes and small businesses, the disadvantages of consumer-grade tape drives—low capacity and speed, high cost, and the physical fragility of the tapes—outweigh the advantages.

Consumer-grade tape drives have always lagged behind hard drives in capacity, and that gap remains today. The highest-capacity consumer-grade tape drives, Travan 40 models, store only 20 GB natively, although they ...

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