SHARE
Facebook X Pinterest WhatsApp

Benchmark Ships 100,000th Tape Drive

Benchmark Storage Innovations, Inc. today announced that it has shipped its 100,000th tape drive. Dell was the recipient of the milestone drive. “The entire Benchmark team is to be congratulated for their accomplishments,” said Lew Frauenfelder, Benchmark’s CEO and president. “It represents a tremendous amount of hard work and dedication.” “As the proud recipient of […]

Sep 10, 2001
Enterprise Storage Forum content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More

Benchmark Storage Innovations, Inc. today announced that it has shipped its 100,000th tape drive. Dell was the recipient of the milestone drive.

“The entire Benchmark team is to be congratulated for their accomplishments,” said Lew Frauenfelder, Benchmark’s CEO and president. “It represents a tremendous amount of hard work and dedication.”

“As the proud recipient of the 100,000th tape drive, we congratulate Benchmark on achieving this significant milestone,” said Russ Holt, vice president of Dell’s Enterprise Systems Group. “Benchmark’s DLT1 tape drive offers the flexibility and performance to accommodate a wide range of Dell PowerVault storage customers, from small businesses with simple networks to large customers that need to protect significant amounts of data.”

“It is appropriate that Dell is the recipient of the 100,000th drive,” added Frauenfelder. “As Benchmark’s first systems OEM partner, Dell’s partnership significantly helped broaden the worldwide market for our storage solutions.”

Fourth Patent Awarded

Following its path of proven engineering excellence, Benchmark recently was granted its fourth U.S. Patent by the United States Patent and Trademark office. Benchmark currently has 13 additional patents pending

Recommended for you...

15 Software Defined Storage Best Practices
Drew Robb
Dec 18, 2023
What is Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)?
Drew Robb
Dec 8, 2023
9 Types of Computer Memory Defined (With Use Cases)
Anina Ot
Dec 1, 2023
Comparing SSD vs HDD Speed: Which Is Faster?
Don Hall
Nov 22, 2023
Enterprise Storage Forum Logo

Enterprise Storage Forum offers practical information on data storage and protection from several different perspectives: hardware, software, on-premises services and cloud services. It also includes storage security and deep looks into various storage technologies, including object storage and modern parallel file systems. ESF is an ideal website for enterprise storage admins, CTOs and storage architects to reference in order to stay informed about the latest products, services and trends in the storage industry.

Property of TechnologyAdvice. © 2025 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved

Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.