A robotic device that holds an adequate supply of tapes and can autonomously move tapes to tape drives, load tapes into tape drives, unload them and move them back to a tape storage location.
an automated library used to store massive amounts of information on magnetic tape cartridges. A tape library typically contains tape drives for reading and writing information, access ports for entering and removing tapes, and robots for moving tapes between storage cells, drives, and access ports. Contrast with disk library.
a device that contains one or more tape drives along with dozens or hundreds of tape slots
a high-capacity data storage system used to store, retrieve, read, and write data using multiple magnetic tape cartridges
a high-capacity, high-density, high-performance scalable device that uses multiple drives and storage slots to provide many terra bytes of data storage
A term used to refer to a collection of drives and tape cartridges. The tape library may be an automated device that performs tape cartridge mounts and demounts without operator intervention.
(1) A term used to refer to a collection of tape cartridges. (2) An automated device that performs tape cartridge mounts and demounts without operator intervention.
High-capacity tape system that works with multiple tape cartridges for storing backups of data, information, and instructions. 7.27
In computer storage, a tape library (sometimes called a tape silo or tape jukebox) is a storage device which contains one or more tape drives, a number of slots to hold tape cartridges, a barcode reader to identify tape cartridges and an automated method / robot for loading tapes. These devices can store immense amounts of data.
