Euroball III Data Acquisition

Euroball III Data Acquisition
Tape Server

Hardware configuration for Euroball III

6 Digital Linear Tapes (DLT)
8 Exabyte 8500 tape drives fitted with robot changers (from Eurogam)

Supports up to 4 data streams
Each data stream may be output to any number of the drives in either duplication mode, parallel mode or any combination of these.
Currently DLT4000 available (20 Gbyte/tape and 1.4 Mbyte/sec). By Summer 1996 it is expected that 5 Mbyte/sec (raw) will be available.
The Exabyte 8500 drive can write up to 5Gbyte of data onto a 8mm video cassette at a continuous rate of up to 0.5 Mbyte/sec.