100% Restore from tapes submerged in hot coffee

Hot Coffee Test
Hot coffee is great with your morning newspaper, but not very nice when your company's data is submerged in it! It's acidity actually makes it corrosive to the tapes' thin magnetic metal coating. The suspended coffee oils, which give the coffee its flavor, can adhere to the surface of the tape. Finally, the heat of the coffee can distort and warp the ultra-thin plastic media. For any conventional tape drive, a hot coffee spill on the tape media would be the kiss of death - but not for VXA.

Disaster Tested
VXA works its magic with coffee-damaged tapes just the same way that it does for boiled tapes and frozen tapes. VXA's sophisticated 4-level Reed Solomon hardware error correction, the most sophisticated in the industry, guarantees that there is very little chance of losing data, even if the tape is coated locally with coffee stains. VXA's use of Packet Technology means that the data can be restored, even if the tape is warped or distorted from exposure to heat. VXA's advanced technology lets it restore data that would be lost with other tape drives.

How We Ran the Test¹
First, we wrote a VXA X-Tape Packet Tape Cartridge with 1 Gigabyte of data. Then we placed the tape in a dry beaker. We brewed a fresh pot of coffee, just the same way it's brewed in thousands of offices around the world: hot, and strong. Then we poured the coffee right onto the tape, submerging it completely, and leaving it submerged for 60 seconds. We removed the tape from the beaker and rinsed it in filtered tap water to dislodge any coffee sediments. Then we shook the tape to remove excess moisture and padded it dry with paper towels. We let the tapes dry for 48 hours in a standard office environment. The relative humidity was 15%-20% during the drying process (tested at our facility in Boulder, Colorado).

The Result: 100% Restore
After drying, the tape was loaded into a VXA-2 tape drive, and the original data was restored without error. Proof positive that it's not just a slogan, VXA Packet Tape Technology truly is "Disaster Tested!"

¹ All tests documented with signed affidavits. Copies available on request.