DDS Manufacturers Group
are working with the DDS (Digital Data Storage) DAT technology. HP and Exabyte have been
the main players in this technology.
DDS and Travan have lower cost and performance compared to the other technologies
discussed.
| DDS-1 | Capacity of 4 GB and transfer rate of 366KB/s (compression 2:1) |
| DDS-2 | Capacity of 8 GB and transfer rate of 1 MB/s (compression 2:1) |
| DDS-3 | Capacity of 24 GB and transfer rate of 2 MB/s (compression 2:1) |
| DDS-4 | Planned 1999 40GB capacity on a 150-meter DDS-4 tape (compression 2:1) Transfer rate will be in the range of 1 to 3MB/s (native). |