Compare Seagate Travan TapeStor 8 (STT28000A-RFT) Travan Tape Drive to Seagate DAT Scorpion 4 (STD64000N) DAT Tape Drive

It's important to protect all the data that resides on your desktop by performing regular backups. Seagate's internal TapeStore Travan 8 tape drive provides a cost-effective, entry-level storage system for desktop and laptop applications, servers and high-end workstations. The TapeStore Travan 8 allows you to backup up to 8GB of data on a single cartridge, using software data compression. It has an ATAPI interface and features a compressed backup rate of 60MB per minute. It optimizes its transfer rate using the unique FastSense feature, delivering transfer rates up to 600KB per second. ??The TapeStore Travan 8 reads and writes to Travan TR-4 media and is backwards read compatible with QIC-3020, QIC-3010, and QIC-80 media. It is compatible with Windows 95/98, Windows NT, and Netware environments. It can be mounted in a 5.25-inch half height bay with the included rail kit or in a 3.5-inch low profile bay without the kit. 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