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Tape Drive Product Information for both current and end of life tape drives and libraries. If you need information not listed here please just call us and we will do all we can to help.
Tape Drive Product Information for both current and end of life tape drives and libraries. If you need information not listed here please just call us and we will do all we can to help.
HP StorageWorks DAT drives are based on the Digital Data Storage (DDS) format. In fact, DAT is the most successful tape backup technology of all time with more than 18 million DAT drives shipped since its introduction in 1989, and with a current world-wide installed base of over 6 million drives. A number of vendors manufacture DDS format DAT drives, but HP has long been the market leader in DAT technology.
The HP StorageWorks DAT 72×6 tape autoloader is an ideal backup solution for small to medium companies with limited IT support or remote sites of larger companies. By reducing administrative tasks, the DAT 72×6 not only simplifies the backup process but reduces the risk of error as well. The autoloader includes a single tape drive inside an enclosure that holds six data cartridges in a removable magazine.
The HP StorageWorks DAT 72 tape drive is the fifth generation of HP’s popular DDS tape drives, built on the success of four previous generations of DDS technology and providing unprecedented levels of capacity, reliability and cost of ownership. The DAT 72 delivers a capacity of 72 GB on a single data cartridge and a transfer rate of 21.6 GB/hr (assuming a 2:1 compression ratio). This drive reads and writes DAT 72, DDS-4, and DDS-3 formats, making it the perfect upgrade from earlier generations of DDS.
The HP StorageWorks DAT 40 Tape Drive is an entry level, dependable solution for small to medium server storage backup needs as well as enterprise networks.Continue reading
With its economical price, the DAT 24 Tape Drive provides outstanding value to a wide range of organizations and network customers. It is a product within the DDS product line, offering ideal resolutions for storing critical data.Continue reading
Capable of data transfer rates up to 280 MB/sec, HP’s exclusive Data Rate Matching further optimizes performance by matching host system speed to keep drives streaming, thus enabling the fastest tape performance.
HP StorageWorks LTO Ultrium Tape Drives represent five-generations of LTO tape drive technology capable of storing up to 3 TB per cartridge, with HP TapeAssure for manageability, hardware data encryption and unprecedented performance.Continue reading
Setting new standards for capacity, performance and security, the HP StorageWorks Ultrium 1840 Tape Drive can store up to 1.6TB per cartridge while providing hardware-based data encryption to enable greater levels of security and unprecedented performance.Continue reading
Positioned as the highest capacity drive in the StorageWorks family, the Ultrium 960 features an 800 GB compressed (2:1) storage capacity using new LTO 3 media. By doubling the capacity of current Ultrium drives, HP customers now require fewer data cartridges to meet their storage needs, significantly reducing their IT costs and increasing their ROI.Continue reading