New High Capacity Quantum Lto-4 Hh Tape Drive

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LTO-4 HH is a high quality tape drive manufactured by Quantum. Quantum LTO4 HH tape drives feature up to 1600 GB compressed capacity. Quantum LTO-4 tape drives offer excellent storage solutions in demanding work environments. In compressed mode, the recording performance of these LTO 4 drives reaches 864 GB/hour. High speed LTO-4 HH drive offers its customers the industry's leading 256 bit encryption feature. LTO4 HH is a half height drive whose performance, reliability and transfer speed is equivalent to that of full height LTO 4 drives. In comparison to other tape drives, the Quantum HH tape drive consumes 26 percent less energy in the stand-by mode and 46 percent less energy when it is idle.

When used in data centers, these LTO-4 HH drives consume less power and the reduced cooling costs elevate the overall efficiency of data storage process. The reading and writing speed of Quantum LTO-4 HH is 50% faster than LTO3, and the best feature about this drive is that it achieves faster speed with lesser power consumption. In native mode, the transfer speed and capacity of this economical Quantum LTO4 HH drive is 120MB/s ...
... and 800 GB respectively. The drive's smaller size saves you more shelf space.

The LTO3 and LTO-2 tapes can also be used with the Quantum LTO4 HH drive as it is offers outstanding and cost saving feature of backward compatibility. Its read/write backward capability includes the LTO3 format while it can read data and not write onto the LTO-2 data tapes. Industry's leading LTO2 & LTO3 cartridges are:

Fuji LTO-2 tape (26220001), Sony LTO-2 tape (LTX200GWW), Quantum LTO-2 tape (MR-L2MQN-01), HP LTO-2 data tape (C7972A), Fuji LTO-3 (26230002), Dell LTO-3 tape (0HC591), HP LTO-3 tape (C7973a), TDK LTO ultrium-3 tape (D2406-LTO3), Sony LTO-3 (LTX400GWW), LTO-3 Maxell tape (183950)

Industry's leading serial attached SCSI (SAS) interface standard is used by the half height Quantum LTO4 drive. The SAS interface enables easy installation and exceptional compatibility. You can easily integrate Quantum LTO4 HH into your data center and get the same recording performance and high output characteristics as that of the full height LTO 4 drives. The following LTO cleaning tape brands are ideal for the Quantum LTO4 HH tape drives:

Quantum LTO cleaning cartridge (MR-LUCQN-01), IBM LTO cleaning cartridge (35L2086), Maxell LTO cleaning cartridge (183804), TDK LTO cleaning cartridge (D2404-CC), Sony LTO cleaning cartridge (LTX-CL), HP LTO cleaning cartridge (C7978A)

Quantum LTO-4 HH tape drive's backward compatibility feature, secures your previous investments. Now your data security with Quantum HH drive and its exceptional encryption technology is at its highest level. Encryption technology used by Quantum LTO4 HH is 256 bit AES. Hardware based encryption is enabled by the LTO 4 HH drives. The encryption process is efficiently done by the high speed Quantum drive without affecting the storage system's overall cost efficiency. LTO WORM enabled backup tapes can also be used with LTO4 Quantum HH drive as it features the WORM functionality.

Rob Miller is the Marketing Manager of Tape4backup and markets Quantum LTO-4 Tape and TDK LTO 4 Tape. He has vast experience in the marketing and trading industries and has been helping buyers who have the backup needs and guide clients about the technology.

Rob Miller
34972 Newark Blvd,# 501,Newark CA 94560
Tel: 888-491-4949
Fax: 888-449-5050
Email: rob@tape4backup.com