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Mammoth, Mammoth 2 (M2) Mammoth 170 M 3.75"W x 2.4"H x 0.6"T   There are 2 types of 8mm Mammoth media: Advanced Metal Evaporated (AME), and AME with a built-in cleaning strip (Exabyte calls this media "Smart Clean").  Both of these come in various lengths. All have the same physical dimensions.    There are two Mammoth recording formats:  Mammoth, and Mammoth 2.    There are three Mammoth drives: Mammoth LT, Mammoth 8900, and Mammoth 2. The 8900 is sometimes just called "Mammoth"   Tape capacity ranges from 5 GB (Mammoth 1 format on 22M tape) to 160 GB (Mammoth 2 format on 225 M tape, with compression).    Tape & drive combinations: Mammoth Lt and Mammoth 8900 record in Mammoth 1 format.  Mammoth 2 (also called M2) records in M2 format Mammoth 2 claims to read Mammoth 1 format tapes, although 3 of the 4 drives we've owned either failed to read M1 tapes at all or read very slowly (about 1 MB every 10 minutes). Mammoth LT drives use 22 or 125 M AME tapes Mammoth 8900 drives use 22, 48, 125, or 170 M AME tapes (with firmware upgrade) Mammoth 2 uses 75, 150, or 225 M AME with Smartclean (and also accepts the 8900 tapes) AIT is not the same; see the separate listing.

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