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Travan Portable USB Tape Drive User’s Guide 1
Chapter 1
1Introduction and Installation
This chapter provides a description of the Quantum Travan Portable USB 
Tape Drive and installation procedures.
Introduction 1
The Quantum Travan Portable USB tape drive is available in 20GB and 
40GB models, with capacities of up to 20 and 40 Gbytes, respectively 
(based on 2:1 data compression). For a list of the tape formats supported 
by each drive, see table 3
 on page 12.
Note: You cannot use TR-1, TR-2, TR-3 or QIC-80 tapes with either 
the 20GB or the 40GB drive. In addition, you cannot use TR-4 
tapes in the 40GB drive.










