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1973 - StorageTek's disk division is founded. 1974 - StorageTek's first 3600 tape drive ships. 1975 - StorageTek ships the first 8000 Super Disk and announces the 8350 disk subsystem. 1978 - StorageTek develops the first solid-state disk. 1984 - StorageTek develops the first intelligent disk. 1986 - StorageTek develops the first cached disk.
The StorageTek SD3 drive was different, being based upon a modified video recording device. The tape advanced steadily, and data was recorded (or read) by a cylindrical head rotating at high speed and inclined at a small angle to the direction of tape motion, laying down (or reading back) a series of short data tracks very closely spaced ...
Oracle StorageTek SL8500 is an enterprise-class robotic tape library. Each library module starts with a capacity of 1448 tape cartridges, and expands in 1728 cartridge increments to a maximum capacity of 10088. [ 2 ]
Oracle's free open source StorageTek Linear Tape File System (LTFS), Open Edition software [10] is claimed to be the first to store 8.5TB (native capacity) on a single cartridge. It supports Oracle’s midrange StorageTek LTO 5 and LTO 6 tape drives from HP and IBM as well as Oracle’s StorageTek T10000C and T10000D tape drives. [11] [12]
On June 2, 2005, Sun announced it would purchase Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek) for US$4.1 billion in cash, or $37.00 per share, a deal completed in August 2005. In 2006, Sun introduced the Sun StorageTek 5800 System, the first application-aware programmable storage solution. In 2008, Sun contributed the source code of the ...
Terry Johnson (March 14, 1935 – July 24, 2010) was an engineer and entrepreneur notable for his work on hard disk drives (HDD). Johnson's early career included engineering and management roles in magnetic recording at IBM (1964–70) and Memorex (1971–73).
Magnetic-tape data storage is a system for storing digital information on magnetic tape using digital recording.. Tape was an important medium for primary data storage in early computers, typically using large open reels of 7-track, later 9-track tape.
In computer storage, a tape library is a physical area that holds magnetic data tapes.In an earlier era, tape libraries were maintained by people known as tape librarians and computer operators and the proper operation of the library was crucial to the running of batch processing jobs.