IBM 7208-345 external 8mm tape drive - Refurbished

The IBM 7208 Model 345 has a media capacity of 60 GB (150 GB with 2.5:1 compression) data storage per cartridge and a sustained data rate of 12 MB per second (30 MB per second with 2.5:1 compression). This is three times the capacity and four times the data rate of the IBM 7208 Model 341. The Model 345 features data compression hardware using Adaptive Lossless Data Compression (ALDC), a state-of-the-art data compression technique developed by IBM. It also utilizes the IBM Mammoth-2 Advanced Metal Evaporated (AME) media data cartridge with SmartClean technology.