1PK ADR 15/30GB Data Cart for ONSTREAM 30GB ADR Drives

Advanced Digital Recording (ADR) is a collection of significant technological innovations that deliver unprecedented reliability, enhanced performance, and low cost. An advanced embedded servo system contributes to high data reliability in two ways. First, it communicates with the head to assure media integrity as it writes data. This is an innovative way to avoid media defects and assure original data is written correctly. Secondly, the servo system prevents the tape from wandering off track, which could make the data unreadable in the future. OnStream’s unique ability to read or write all eight tracks of data simultaneously provides the opportunity to spatially distribute error correction code - both horizontally and vertically. This greatly enhances the chances for data recovery versus other technologies that use only horizontal methods. The result is a reliability specification of only one unreadable bit in every 10 bits recorded. That’s 100 times better than the closest competitor and 10,000 times better than the PC’s primary data storage device, the hard disk drive.