Special Features:

Requested name - 4mm tape drive; dds-3, 12gb native/24gb compressed; transfer rate - 1.2mb/seconds native, 2.4mb/sec compressed; 4 head read while write; scsi-2 interface; 2mb buffer size

Properties:

An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.