Tape Drives

Tape Drives are one of the oldest data storage mediums still in use today. Their reliability and growth in storage size over the years has kept them in use around the world. They can be connected to computer or servers in a variety of manners including USB, Firewire, IDE and most often SCSI. SCSI is used most often because of its relatively fast transfer rate and its heavy use in servers.

Unlike Network Attached Storage, tape drives are not usually connected to a network but rather a single computer or server. Tape drives are most often used as the regularly scheduled backup medium in servers while using a rotation of tapes to provide multiple backup copies incase disaster occurs.