Backup Performance Gets Better With Hp Dat-160 Usb Tape Storage Drive

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DDS (digital data storage) is a well renowned backup format that has established new industry standards. DDS tape technology has a major market share in small & mid-range businesses. High capacity roadmap of DDS technology keeps your organization ahead of the burgeoning storage needs, and provides a trouble-free migration path.

HP's backup tape products have a track record of superior quality, improved durability and unmatched cost efficiency. HP DAT-160 internal USB drive is the culmination of HP's innovation and technological excellence. Its part number is Q1580A. The drive represents the HP's StorageWorks drive family. USB connectivity ensures fast deployment and the drive is ready to perform its tasks in less than 60 seconds.

HP DAT-160 drive is built tough to deliver optimized backup performance and high speed backups with unbeatable media reliability. This high speed DAT-160 drive features the ability to reliably perform backup storage tasks at an impressive 49.3 GB/hr compressed rate. DAT-160 tape technology can be confidently used in remote offices, workgroups and data intensive environments.

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... engineering has enabled HP to develop high speed, lightweight, robust and economical tape technology that measures up to the exploding backup requirements. Increased bit density allows the HP DAT-160 tape to hold 160GB compressed and 80GB native data. HP DAT160 USB drive allows high speed backups with absolute integrity. The drive ensures investment protection and far exceeds the industry standards. It provides outstanding compatibility with industry's major backup applications, network servers and leading operating systems.

Good news is that DDS-5 (DAT-72) and DDS-4 tapes are read-record compatible with HP Q1580A USB drive. Therefore the customers can benefit from the higher storage performance of DAT-160 tape and also have a strong grip over their previous backup data and IT investments.

HP's exclusive library and tape tools are intelligent developed to make data management, troubleshooting and installation simple. These powerful and advantageous data management tools feature in all HP StorageWorks tape drives. Thanks to the new OBDR (one button disaster recovery) technique, the HP DAT-160 drive provides an exceptional and reliable functionality that helps to efficiently restore your sensitive information just by pressing a single button. Part numbers of best selling DAT160 tape cartridges are listed below:

HP DAT160 tape
C8011A

Sony DAT160 tape cartridge
DGDAT160

TDK DAT-160 tape
DC-DAT160

Maxell DAT-160 tapes
230010, 230020

TDK DAT-160 tape
DC-DAT160

The HP DAT-160 drive offers an amazing automated cleaning system that helps to optimize the storage and archival performance. Therefore you will need lesser manual cleaning, thus resulting in greater operating efficiency. HP C8015A cleaning cartridge has been developed to extend the useful life of DAT-160 tape drives. Low acquisition cost of HP DAT160 technology makes it the favorite tape technology among the budget-constrained companies.

HP DAT-160 drive assures economical archival and storage with an industry leading MTBF (mean time between failures) of one million hours. HP DAT160 tape drive performs brilliantly with top ranking operating systems, servers and backup storage applications. HP DAT-160 technology provides support to a broad range of environments. Advanced HP DAT160 tape devices offer state-of-the-art technologies and robust features to deliver better performance and cost efficiency in demanding IT environments.

Rob Miller is the Marketing Manager of Tape4backup and markets DAT 160 Tape and HP DAT-160 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