NOTE: The AIT and VXA formats and some other less common formats also use 8 mm wide tape, but are completely incompatible. Compatibility between tapes and drives and native capacities (GB) Legend: • RO - The tape drive can read this tape, but not write. (Read Only) • Y - The tape drive can read and write this tape, but its size is not known. • Numbered entries indicate the native storage capacity (in GB) for this combination of tape and drive.
Exabyte 8 mm These drives use
metal particle (MP) tape. • 1987—EXB-8200 • Full-height form factor • 246 kB/s data transfer rate • EXB-8200SX model features high-speed search • EXB-8205: Up to 5.0 GB on one 112 m data cartridge (assuming 2:1 compression ratio) • EXB-8205XL: Up to 7.0 GB on one 160 m data cartridge (assuming 2:1 compression ratio) • 1990—EXB-8500 • Full-height form factor • 500 kB/s data transfer rate • EXB-8500c model features hardware data compression • 1992—EXB-8505 • Half-height form factor • 500 kB/s data transfer rate (uncompressed) / 1.0 MB/s data transfer rate (assuming a 2:1 compression ratio) • Up to 10.0 GB on one 112 m data cartridge (assuming 2:1 compression ratio) • 1994—EXB-8505XL • Half-height form factor • 500 kB/s data transfer rate (uncompressed) / 1.0 MB/s data transfer rate (assuming a 2:1 compression ratio) • Up to 14.0 GB on one 160 m XL data cartridge (assuming 2:1 compression ratio) • 1995—EXB-8700 • Tabletop (top-loading) form factor • 8700 model included generic backup software • 8700LT model included no software • 8700SW included Cheyenne backup software • 1998—Eliant 820 • Half-height form factor
Mammoth These drives use Advanced Metal Evaporated (AME) tape, but could also read (but not write) MP tapes. • 1996—EXB-8900 Mammoth • 3 MB/s data transfer rate • LCD on drive displayed drive status • 1999—Mammoth-LT • No LCD
Mammoth-2 (M2) These drives used Advanced Metal Evaporated (AME) tape with a 2 m integrated cleaning tape header called
Smart Clean. • 1999—Mammoth-2 • 12 MB/s data transfer rate • 4.6 cm/s tape speed during normal read/write operations • 1.6 m/s tape speed during search and rewind operations • 17 s load time, from insertion to ready • ALDC hardware data compression, 1 kB compression buffer == See also ==