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Abbreviation of Digital Data Storage, the industry standard for digital audio tape (DAT) formats.

There are currently four kinds of DDS.

Type
of DDS		 Tape Length
in Meters		 Compression
Off On
DDS-1 90 2 GB 4 GB
DDS-2 120 4 GB 8 GB
DDS-3 125 12 GB 24 GB
DDS-4 150 20 GB 40 GB

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