| DAT/DDS Drives and Media Compatibility Matrix | |||||||
| Native / compressed capacity | DDS-1 | DDS-1 DC | DDS-2 | DDS-3 | DDS-4 | DDS-5 (April 2003) | |
| These drives all support hardware data compression | |||||||
| Throughput (Mbytes/sec.) | 0,183 (media : DDS-1 60 m) | 0,183 (media : DDS-1 90 m) | 0,51 (media : DDS-2 120 m) | 1 (media : DDS-3 125 m) | 3 (media : DDS-4 150 m) | 3 (media : DDS-5 170 m) | |
| Notes | (2) | (2) | (2) | (2) | |||
| Interface | HP-IB, SE-SCSI | SE-SCSI | SE-SCSI | SE-SCSI | LVD-SCSI (Ultra-2 SCSI) | LVD-SCSI (Ultra-2 SCSI) | |
| 60 m (200 ft) | 1,3 / 2,6 Gbyte | Reads and writes | Reads and writes | Reads and writes | Reads and writes | Media not recognized | Media not recognized |
| 90 m (300 ft) | 2 / 4 Gbyte | (1) | Read-only | ||||
| 120 m (400 ft) | 4 / 8 Gbyte | Media not recognized | Media not recognized | Reads and writes | |||
| 125 m (410 ft) | 12 / 24 Gbyte | Media not recognized | Reads and writes | ||||
| 150 m (500 ft) | 20 / 40 Gbyte | Media not recognized | |||||
| 170 m (550 ft) | 36 / 72 Gbyte | Media not recognized | |||||
| Warning : Some older units support only 60 m (200 ft) or shorter media | |||||||
| With the media providing the highest throughput. Using other media types may yield a lesser throughput. | |||||||
| Data shown in this document assumes the usage of MRS (Media Recognition Compatible) media | |||||||
| DDS-1 types of media, with a length less than 60 m (200 ft) have not been considered | |||||||