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- BOSTON, Mass. (February 11, 1992) -- Tallgrass Technologies Corporation
- today announced the FS3000, a 2.7 gigabyte QIC tape device. The FS3000 is
- positioned as a high performance device for back up and restore on
- extremely high performance networks where speed requirements exceed
- existing QIC and DAT technologies.
-
- The FS3000 triples the performance of other technologies with a transfer
- rate of up to 36 Megabytes per minute. An industry first, the FS3000 can
- backup a full Gigabyte of data in 1/2 hour. The FS3000 utilizes the
- QIC-1350 specification and stores 2.7 GB with data compression on a single
- cartridge. An extended length data cartridge will be available by year
- end, allowing the FS3000 to store up to 3.2 gigabytes on a single
- cartridge. Because the drive supports Quick File Access, the FS3000 can
- seek out any file in an average of 30 seconds in a restore operation, even
- providing fast restore of compressed files.
-
- "Time critical applications are best served by this new system. With a
- backup speed of 1 GB per half hour, a typical 300 MB Novell network can do
- backups and restores in under 10 minutes . The FS3000 offers the user an
- alternative to more costly technologies," stated Ernest H. Wassmann,
- President and CEO of Tallgrass.
-
- The FS3000 offers data integrity that exceeds less than one unrecoverable
- error in 1015 bits, the highest in the industry, as well as unmatched
- reliability by achieving an 80,000 hour MTBF. The FS3000 provides an
- automatic cartridge loading mechanism that is more advanced than
- traditional swing-head design, assuring user convenience and data
- security.
-
- The FS3000 is a 5.25" half height device supporting the tape command set of
- SCSI-II. It is supported by DOS, NetWare, UNIX, XENIX, OS/2 and Macintosh
- environments for both ISA and MCA bus computers.
-
- Suggested retail pricing for the FS3000 starts at $4,495 for an internal
- ISA model and ranges to $4,995 for an external MCA model. All drives are
- shipped with FileSECURE software, SCSI host adapter, cables, power cord,
- and Magnus data cartridge.
-
- Tallgrass Technologies is a leading supplier of storage management
- solutions. Established in 1981, Tallgrass supports an installed base in
- excess of 250,000 units worldwide. Celebrating over a decade in business
- as Architects of Storage Management, Tallgrass is represented in
- twenty-two countries around the globe.
-
- Tallgrass' series of tape backup systems provide a full range of storage
- management solutions, enabling Tallgrass to be a single-source provider of
- tape backup systems to its distributor partners.
-
- TALLGRASS TECHNOLOGIES
- 11100 West 82nd St, Lenexa, Kansas 66214
- 913-492-6002 ∙ FAX 913-492-2465
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