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Chapter 9. Tape Drives

Although the cost and capacity of removable optical and magnetic storage devices continue to improve, tape drives remain the best choice to back up or transfer very large amounts of data. Tape drives provide a combination of high capacity, speed, low media cost, and reliability that no other technology can match.



    		Dedication
    		Foreword
    		Preface
    		Chapter 1. Fundamentals
    		Chapter 2. Working on PCs
    		Chapter 3. Motherboards
    		Chapter 4. Processors
    		Chapter 5. Memory
    		Chapter 6. Floppy Disk Drives
    		Chapter 7. High-Capacity Floppy Disk Drives
    		Chapter 8. Removable Hard Disk Drives
    		Chapter 9. Tape Drives
    		9.1 Tape Technologies
    		9.2 Choosing a Tape Drive
    		9.3 Installing and Configuring a Tape Drive
    		9.4 Care and Feeding of a Tape Drive
    		9.5 Troubleshooting Tape Drive Problems
    		9.6 The Dirty Little Secret of Long Filenames
    		9.7 Developing a Backup Strategy
    		9.8 Our Picks
    		Chapter 10. CD-ROM Drives
    		Chapter 11. CD Writers
    		Chapter 12. DVD Drives
    		Chapter 13. Hard Disk Interfaces
    		Chapter 14. Hard Disk Drives
    		Chapter 15. Video Adapters
    		Chapter 16. Displays
    		Chapter 17. Sound Adapters
    		Chapter 18. Speakers and Headphones
    		Chapter 19. Keyboards
    		Chapter 20. Mice and Trackballs
    		Chapter 21. Game Controllers
    		Chapter 22. Serial Communications
    		Chapter 23. Parallel Communications
    		Chapter 24. USB Communications
    		Chapter 25. Cases
    		Chapter 26. Power Supplies
    		Chapter 27. Backup Power Supplies
    		Chapter 28. Building a PC
    		Colophon