Robustly Designed Ibm Lto-4 Ts2340 Tape Drive

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Absolute integrity of mission critical information and its in-time availability are crucial factors of a data protection strategy. Unintentional data deletions, software hardware malfunctions, malicious data access and viruses are the common threats which can affect your business continuity. With LTO ultrium tape technology, your organization becomes agile and can seamlessly backup & reach the critical information quickly at a lower cost. LTO roadmap features a clear scalable path to address the ever-changing needs of companies.

IBM, a co-founder of LTO technology, offers a complete LTO-4 tape solution. IBM LTO-4 ultrium devices have been engineered for the heavy demands of server environments and data storage applications. IBM TS2340 is a competitively priced LTO-4 tape drive that is the most reliable solution to keep the company's valuable information safe. IBM TS2340 is an external stand-alone tape drive that can also be installed in a rack mountable unit.

IBM LTO-4 tape technology offers an excellent migration path for the users of SDLT tape, 8mm tape and DLT tape formats. IBM has increased the tape ...
... length and linear density, which has helped to boost the media capacity of LTO4 ultrium cartridge. Native physical capacity of IBM LTO 4 tape reaches 800 GB. IBM TS2340 external tape drive offers 2:1 data compressing capability that amplifies the capacity of LTO-4 cartridge to 1600 GB.

High performance IBM TS2340 drive lowers the operating costs, saves more data-center space and provides rock solid reliability to help comply with the toughest data laws. IBM TS2340 drive is designed for greater media choice. The fully read-write compatible data tapes are LTO-3 and LTO-4. That's not all; the IBM TS2340 is also capable of retrieving information from LTO2 ultrium tapes. Data throughput rate of IBM TS2340 ultrium drive has been enhanced by 50% over the LTO ultrium-3 drive. The IBM TS2340 drive delivers exceptional reliability at 120 MB/s (native).

IBM has introduced 3 GB/s serial-attached SCSI and ultra-160 SCSI interface attachments to support a broad range of open system servers. IBM TS2340 drive can be confidently attached to Sun Solaris, UNIX, HP-UX, Microsoft Windows, IBM System x, IBM System i, IBM System p and PC servers. Today's data centers demand faster data access. That's why IBM has embedded a small 8KB cartridge memory that holds the information related to error rate, usage history and file log.

DLT tape, VXA tape, Super DLT tape, Travan tape and AIT tape are the rival backup tape technologies. Part numbers of few competing tape cartridges are listed below:

IBM LTO 4 tapes
95P4436
95P4437

HP SDLT2 tape
Q2020A

Travan TR-7 tape

Sony LTO 4 ultrium tape
LTX800G

Travan TR-5 tape

Quantum DDS4 tape
CDM40

Maxell LTO4 tape
183906

Sony DAT-160 tape
DGDAT160

These LTO-4 tapes are also commonly known as;
Ultrium 4 tapes
Lto ultrium 4 tapes

IBM TS2340 drive offers the highly dependable data encryption functionality that provides you complete peace of mind. Therefore now your data will be completely secured, and you need not to worry about your data being used maliciously in case if it is lost. In order to ensure consistent performance and higher throughput rate, IBM has incorporated a larger 256 MB data buffer in TS2340 tape drive. IBM LTO4 ultrium format provides the customers added data security and long term data preservation at an economical cost. Product, software and device names mentioned throughout the article are trademarks and sole property of their owners.

Frank Miller is the Marketing Manager of Backuptape and markets LTO-4 Tape and IBM 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.

Frank Miller
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