Exabyte’s flagship product, 8505XL, provides the latest in 8mm tape drive capacity, performance and reliability while protecting end-user hardware and data cartridge investments.

The Exabyte 8505XL maintains full read and write interchange ability with the original, popular 8mm tape drives. Accurate data compression is assured through the industry-leading Compression Integrity Check . This feature typically doubles the native capacity and transfer rate of the drive.