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MTI has also rolled out its Vivant 400 storage solution, available with a 146.8GB disk drive. Together with its fault-tolerant, scalable technology, the new 146.8GB drive allows users to expand storage to 25.8 Terabytes of data. The Vivant 400 can accommodate 16 disk drives per 3U enclosure and 11 enclosures per cabinet or rack, for a total of 176 drives. Available in both SAN (Storage Area Network) and direct-attached models, this series provides end-to-end 2-Gigabit fibre channel technology and supports multiple heterogeneous open system host servers running on such operating systems as Sun Solaris, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, Microsoft Windows NT and 2000, Novell NetWare, Linux and IBM AIX.
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From Other World Computing (Woodstock, IL) comes two CD-RW external FireWire drives-the Mercury Pro 48x12x48 and the Mercury Pro 48x24x48-which operate at 52x speeds and burn CDs in under 90 seconds. Both drives are compatible with Macintosh and Windows-based systems with FireWire or USB support, and both feature Lite-On SMART-BURN technology. Each drive ships with 25 pieces of CD-R media, one piece of CD-RW media, Roxio Toast Lite 5.2.x and connecting cables. The Mercury Pro CD-RW writes to industry-standard 550MB (63 min.), 650MB (74 min.) and 700MB (80 min.) discs and is capable of overburn writes up to 99 minutes.
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In addition to the DX30, discussed above, Quantum Corp. manufactures the SDLT 320 tape drive, with 160 Gigabytes of storage capacity and a 16MB/second sustained data transfer rate in Native Mode. The SDLT 320 can back up 115GB per hour in compressed mode and store 320GB on a single cartridge compressed. All versions are backward-read-compatible with other DLT drives, allowing easy migration to the Super DLTape platform as storage needs grow.