Compare Seagate DAT Scorpion 24 (STD624000N-SB) DAT Tape Drive to Seagate DAT Scorpion 4 (STD64000N) DAT Tape Drive

Seagate's award-winning Scorpion 24 DDS-3 internal tape drive is the ideal backup product for high-performance workstations or low-end to midrange server environments. Based on the industry-standard DDS (DAT) format, it features up to 24-Gbyte compressed capacity per cartridge and backup speeds of up to 132 Mbytes per minute. Seagate Scorpion DDS internal solutions include installation accessories and a Seagate Resource CD. Less

The Seagate 2000, 4000, and 8000 Series Digital Audio Tape (DAT) drives are designed for computer environments requiring high performance, high capacity data storage. Based on a 3.5-inch mechanism, these internal and external drives provide a native transfer rate of 550 kilobytes/second (KB/sec). The primary differences between the series of DAT drives are the formats supported by the drives. The 2000 series drives support the DDS format; the 4000 series drives support the DDS and DDS-DC formats; and the 8000 series drives support the DDS, DDS-DC, and DDS-2 formats.??All of the drives provide an embedded, single-ended Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI) controller. The drives are equipped with a 1-megabyte (MB) on-drive buffer to facilitate efficient operation. In addition, the drives offer electronically erasable, programmable, flash memory, which enables qualified Seagate OEMs to download revised firmware to the drive via three methods: using the drive's serial port, the SCSI... Less