History (1995): IBM Magstar 3590

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IBM Magstar 3590 (1995-)

IBM Magstar 3590 is the name of of the series of tape backup drives and their media, introduced by IBM in 1995.

Magstar 3590 media consists of a cartridge with a single reel of half-inch magnetic tape that can store up to 60GB of data on 634m of metal particle tape on the Extended High-Performance cartridge (the High-Performance cartridge can store up to 30GB on 320m of tape).

It replaced the IBM 3480 tape family.

Because of their speed, reliability, durability and low media cost, the Magstar 3590 tape drives are still in high demand.