3490e Tape Drive

Introduced in 1991 by IBM the 3490E tape drive is available from Sunstar Company; refurbished with warranty.

Its 36-track head was able to record 800 megabytes of data on a single tape. The IDRC option allowed it to record up to 2400 megabytes on a single extended tape.

3490E tape drives were available from a variety of manufacturers with bus and tag, ESCON, or high voltage SCSI interfaces, and were capable of data transfer speeds up to 20MB per second.

Some 3490E tape drives are able to read tapes recorded by 3480 tape drives. Others can also write tapes that can be read by 3480 tape drives. But many 3490E tape drives can only read/write 36-track tapes.

Media
While 3490E data cartridges are the same dimensions as 3480 cartridges, the tape media is the same only longer. 3490E tape is optimized for 36-track recording heads, instead of 18-track recording heads. Nevertheless, some 3480 tape drives can record on 3490E media.

Some of the 3490E tape drive models we support, repair and inventory.

DEC TKZ60, TKZ61, TKZ62, TKZ64
FUJITSU M2488C FUJITSU M2483K/N & M2485K/N FUJITSU M2488E
IBM 3490E
OVERLAND DATA TAPE EXPRESS T490E OVERLAND DATA TAPE EXPRESS L490E
PHILLIPS TD3620 PHILLIPS TD3610
MP SYSTEMS MP 8436 MP SYSTEMS MP 8436F
TANDEM 5194 TANDEM 5196
M4 DATA M490E

If you are looking to purchase backup software or possibly conversion software for these 3490E tape drives we can help you.
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Please do call us if you have any questions relating to the 3490E tape drives.
info@sunstarco.com 800.663.5523
Many Thanks
Gavin
Sunstar Company, Inc.
http://www.sunstarco.com/