Exabytes Mammoth tape drive is a high-reliability drive in its class (250,000-hour MTBF) and supports TapeAlert, a preventive maintenance and diagnostic tool. Other outstanding features include a built-in head cleaner, gentle tape handling, optional LCD display, NT 4.0 certification and backward compatibility with existing Exabyte 8mm tape drives. As a standalone drive or library component, Exabyte Mammoth meets market demand for higher reliability, improved performance and increased capacity. This is one of the more popular Mammoth-1 tape drives sold today because of the LVD connection. With total capacities of 40 GB compressed and transfer rates up to 21.6 GB per hour compressed. Consistently reliable, compatible and economical, Exabyte tape drives integrate easily into virtually any system architecture.