Tandberg Data ships VXA-320 products with Firewire for Mac OS X
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 22, 2007 at 11:59am
Tandberg Data, a supplier of backup and archiving technologies, has announced the availability of two new products for Mac OS X: the VXA-320 Firewire/USB Tape Drive, and the StorageLoader VXA-320 Firewire.
The Tandberg Data family of data protection products for Mac OS X is designed and tested for compatibility with Mac Xserve and Xserve RAID. The new products complement the Tandberg StorageLoader with the LTO-3 half-height drive, an 1U, LTO-3 tape autoloader also Apple-certified for the Mac OS X.
The VXA-320 Packet Drive records up to 320GB compressed data to a single cartridge at a transfer rate of up to 24MB/second (compressed). The StorageLoader VXA-320 is an 1u autoloader with 10 cartridge slots offering up to 3.2TB of capacity and a bar code reader standard.
The VXA-320 Firewire Tape Drive and StorageLoader VXA with Firewire include EMC (formerly Dantz) Retrospect Workgroup software. Both products are available now through the Apple Store and through Tandberg Data’s global network of resellers and distributors. Estimated prices for the VXA-320 FW drive and StorageLoader VXA-320 are US$1,199 and $2,170, respectively.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
dave Says:
Now if EMC would only update Retrospect for the Mac. They’ve been saying that a Mac update is in the works for YEARS, without actually doing it. And who knows how long it’ll be for them to add support for MacOS X 10.5....
Posted on October 22, 2007