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DAT Drives for Audio Extraction and Backups

These are the much heralded audio capable DAT drive that audiophiles love! You can use these to dump the data from your Sony DATman(and others) recordings faster than real-time(2x on DDS2 and DDS3 drives). Unfortunately I don't have any in stock that work, and most eat tapes. I need to get them repaired, so if you still know of a good repair shop for these, please drop me an email. I've updated a lot of the links and even added some new ones while I was at it. If you have other sources of information on this topic, please send me some links.

Here are several links for information on extracting audio from Digital Audio Tape drives.
Using Audio DATs in DDS drives
DAT2WAV
VDAT
DAT audo extraction software
DAT Audio software for old Macintosh systems
Audio From a SCSI DAT Drive
read_dat
Seagate DAT information

SGI SDT9000 SGI/Sony Audio Capable DDS-3 DAT drive

  • 12GB Native Capacity with 120M tapes.
  • 24GB Compressed Capacity using the drives hardware compression(Assuming 2:1 compression).
  • SCSI-2 50pin interface.
  • 3.5", Half Height(1.6inches tall) SGI part number.
  • 5.25" Half Height(1.6inches tall) SGI part number available on request.
  • Works with many other operating systems.
  • Sony Manuals here.
  • SGI Audio firmware for playing and recording Audio DAT tapes on an SGIs & PC's .
  • SGI Release Notes.
  • Free Ground shipping to lower 48 states.
  • 2 Used 125M DDS-3 tapes included.
  • Drive used, but in excelent condition.
  • 90 Day full replacement warranty including audio extraction functionality.
    • no working drives currently in stock

    SGI CTD8000H-S SGI/Seagate Audio Capable DDS-2 DAT drive

  • Drive top front view
  • Back Connector View
  • 4GB Native Capacity with 120M tapes.
  • 8GB Compressed Capacity using the drives hardware compression(Assuming 2:1 compression).
  • SCSI-2 50pin interface.
  • 3.5", Half Height(1.6inches tall) SGI part number 064-0002-001.
  • 5.25" Half Height(1.6inches tall) SGI part number 064-0018-001 available on request.
  • Works with many other operating systems check out this.
  • Works with DAT2WAV, VDAT, and other some other software(see links above).
  • SGI Audio firmware for playing and recording Audio DAT tapes on an SGIs & PC's .
  • Seagate Part Number CTD8000H-S .
  • Free Ground shipping to lower 48 states.
  • 2 Used 120M DDS-2 tapes included.
  • Drive used, but in excelent condition.
  • 90 Day full replacement warranty including audio extraction functionality.
    • no working drives currently in stock

    SGI Archive Python 4320NT Audio Capable DDS-1 DAT drive

  • 2GB Native Capacity with 120M tapes.
  • 4GB Compressed Capacity using the drives hardware compression(Assuming 2:1 compression).
  • SCSI-2 50pin interface.
  • 3.5", Half Height(1.6inches tall) SGI part number.
  • External drive w/enclosure, SGI part number available on request.
  • Works with many other operating systems.
  • Works with DAT2WAV, VDAT, and other some other software(see links above).
  • SGI Audio firmware for playing and recording Audio DAT tapes on an SGIs & PC's .
  • Free Ground shipping to lower 48 states.
  • 2 Used 90M DDS-1 tapes included.
  • Drive used, but in excelent condition.
  • 90 Day full replacement warranty including audio extraction functionality.
    • I might have some currently in stock $125