Compare Seagate Travan Hornet 8 (STT28000A) Travan Tape Drive to Seagate STT320000A Travan Tape Drive

The Hornet 8 is the perfect solution for entry-level, mainstream, and performance desktop systems. As a half-height internal ATAPI or SCSI device, this drive can be mounted into either a 3.5-inch or 5.25-inch drive bay. The TapeStor Travan 8 is a bundled solution including media, diagnostic utilities and Backup Exec for Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT Workstation. ??With backup speeds of up to 72 Mbytes a minute, the Hornet 8 drive can store up to 8GB of compressed information per tape cartridge. In addition, the drive is optimized with FastSense Technology to minimize backup time. Three levels of error correction increase data integrity. Data error occurs in less than 1x10^15 bits read. In addition, the Hornet 8 is more robust with higher temperature tolerances. With an MTBF of 330,000 hours at a 20% duty cycle and 350,000 hours at a 12% duty cycle, the Hornet 8 is one of the most reliable drives on the market. Less

It's important to protect all the data that resides on your desktop by performing regular backups. Seagate's Hornet 20, an internal Travan TR-5 tape drive, provides a cost-effective, entry-level storage system for desktop and laptop applications, servers and high-end workstations. The Hornet 20 allows you to backup up to 20GB of data on a single cartridge, using software data compression. It has an ATAPI interface and features a compressed backup rate of 120MB per minute. The Hornet optimizes its transfer rate using the unique FastSense feature, delivering transfer rates up to 1000KB per second. The Hornet 20 reads and writes to Travan TR-5 media and is backwards read compatible with TR-4 and QIC-3095 media. Less