Quarter-inch cartridge
| Storage medium QIC (quarter-inch cartridge)
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 Quarter inch cartridges |
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| General | |
|---|---|
| Type | Magnetic tape |
| capacity | up to 20,000 MB |
| use | data backup |
| origin | |
| developer | Quarter-Inch Cartridge Drive Standards, Inc. |
QIC (quarter-inch cartridge) is a historical magnetic tape system for the backup ( backup ) and archiving of data. It uses cassettes with up to 460 m long and 6.5 mm (¼ ") wide magnetic tape. The small mini-QIC or mini-DC cassettes (sometimes also called Travan ) contain 8 in later versions (QIC Wide) mm tape and are therefore actually not QIC cartridges at all.
QIC is standardized by Cartridge Drive Standards, Inc., an international association of drive and media manufacturers.
Formats
| format | Capacity (MB) |
Data rate (KB / s) |
Tracks |
|---|---|---|---|
| QIC-80 | 80-500 | 62.5 | 28/36 |
| TR-1 | 400 | 62.5 | 36 |
| QIC-3010 | 340 | 62.5 | 40/50 |
| TR-2 | 800 | 62.5 | 50 |
| QIC-3020 | 670 | 62.5 | 40/50 |
| TR-3 | 1600 | 125 | 50 |
| QIC-3080 | 1200-1600 | 125 | 60/72 |
| TR-4 | 4000 | 1024 | 72 |
| QIC-3095 | 4000 | 1024 | 72 |
| TR-5 | 10,000 | 2048 | 108 |
| TR-7 | 20,000 | 4096 | 108 |
gallery
QIC open with ribbon
QIC open with no ribbon
Web links
Commons : QIC - collection of images, videos and audio files
