There are many companies that offer the storage solutions for the tape drives. Most of these companies are the same ones as those who manufacture the storage media of other types including the optical storage disks and the hard disk drives and other types of storage media like the flash memory or the Zip drives etc. The manufacturers of the tape drives are The Ontrack, Iomega, Seagate, Sony, HP, IBM, Quantum etc.

There are many formats that are available in the tape drives that include the Digital Data Storage or the DDS, Digital Linear Tape or the DLT, the AIT also called as the Advanced Intelligent Tape and lastly the Linear Tape Open or the LTO. There are many companies which are establishing the standards for the tape drives. The tape drives are extensively used for the backup and the archival process; hence the companies are using the research and the development techniques for the enhancements of the various different formats of the tape. Like for example the DLT or the Digital Linear Tape has also the enhanced form of the Super Digital linear Tape also called as the SDLT.

The flexibility and the reliability, both the features can be combined in the tape drives and hence the tape drives can even be used as the SCSI, IDE or even to the parallel port. Listed below are some of the names of the tapes that are currently available in the market. The major manufacturers of the tape drives are the HP, IBM, Samsung, Seagate, Sony, Quantum etc. Listed below are some of the specific models that are currently in the market: Hewlett Packard SureStore DAT 24i (C1555D) DAT Tape Drive, Quantum DLT 8000 (TH8BG-YF) DLT Tape Drive, Iomega 32929 Tape Drive, Hewlett Packard StorageWorks DAT 72i (Q1522A#ABA) DAT Tape Drive, Hewlett Packard SureStore DLT vs80e (C7503B#ABA) DLT Tape Drive, Hewlett Packard SureStore DAT 40i (C5686B) DAT Tape Drive, Sony DDS SDT-11000/BM DAT Tape Drive, Sony AIT E260/S (AITE260/S) AIT Tape Drive, Sony AIT Library LIB 81/A3 (LIB-81/A3) AIT Tape Drive, Sony AIT I260/S (AITI260/S) AIT Tape Drive, Quantum DLT VS160 (BH2BA-YF) DLT Tape Drive, Quantum DLT VS80 (BHHBA-YF) DLT Tape Drive, Quantum Super DLTtape 320 (TRS23BA-YF) Super DLT Tape Drive, Overland Data Neo 2000 (ov-lxn901027) Ultrium Tape Drive, Hewlett Packard StorageWorks SDLT 160/320 (257319-001) Super DLT Tape Drive, Hewlett Packard Trade-Ready Mechanism DDS-3 (C1554C) DAT Tape Drive, Quantum ValueLoader SDLT 320 (l3-1/8-s3l-r) Super DLT Tape Drive, Hewlett Packard StorageWorks Ultrium 960 (Q1539A) Ultrium Tape Drive, Certance Scorpion 40 DAT 20 GB (std2401lw-s) DAT Tape Drive, Exabyte VXA-2 PacketLoader (119.00500) VXAtape - 2 Pack, Certance CT 40 (STT3401ASST) Travan Tape Drive, Certance TapeStor Travan (stt6201u2-sst) Travan Tape Drive, Sony AIT-2 TURBO (AITI200AS) AIT-2 Tape Drive, Hewlett Packard StorageWorks DAT 72e (Q1523A#ABA) DAT Tape Drive, Quantum Super DLTtape 320 (TRS23AA-YF) Super DLT Tape Drive, Quantum DLT VS160 (BH2AA-YF) DLT Tape Drive, Hewlett Packard SureStore DAT 24e (C1556D#ABA) DAT Tape Drive. Apart from these tape drives there are many other that are available.

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