Highly Reliable Hp Lto-3 Backup Tape Solution

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New regulations and data retention laws have increased pressure on data managers to assure absolute integrity and security of data over longer time periods. LTO tape storage format enables the enterprises to address the exploding volumes of information at a competitive price.

HP backup storage products are built tough on industry standards and their reliability and performance go beyond the IT managers’ expectations. HP carefully focuses on the customers’ needs and accordingly devises new economical and innovative technologies to meet their demands.

HP ultrium-920 drive family represents the third version LTO-3 tape format. Ultrium-920 drives are specifically developed to provide a complete storage solution for the enterprises’ current and future backup needs. Demanding environments including government agencies, corporate servers, remote offices and public organizations can depend on the industry leading HP LTO-3 tape products.

Physical storage capacity of HP LTO-3 ultrium cartridge is 800GB (compressed) and 400GB (native). This contributes to the HP LTO-3 technology’s lower ownership ...
... cost as the enterprises can complete their high volume data storage with fewer media tapes.

Backward compatibility is the most attractive feature of HP ultrium-920 drives that will provide security to your investments. The customers can confidently use the first 3 generations of LTO tapes with the ultrium-920 tape drives. LTO-1 tapes are only read-accessible and the other two tape versions LTO-2 and LTO-3 are write-read compatible.

Ultrium-920 tape drives provide you more luxury by offering the SAS 3 GB/s and SCSI ultra-320 interfaces. This allows easy integration of the HP LTO-3 drives in the departmental and mid-range network servers.

Data retention laws force the companies to assure long term retention and integrity of their business data. WORM (write once read many) is a powerful technique which assures satisfaction of the toughest regulations and data laws. Good news is that the WORM functionality features in the ultrium-920 tape drives, which makes it even more dependable and efficient storage medium.

Consistent transfer rate of the host system is essential to assure data integrity and improved performance. If the host system’s transfer rate does not match with the tape speed, then the overall performance will be affected. Unique data rate matching mechanism is designed by HP, which alters the tape speed ranging from 20 to 60 MB/s (native) to match is with host’s data throughput rate. Half height form factor of HP ultrium-920 tape drives saves more space and allows easy integration.

Below are listed few of the best selling LTO 3 data tapes:

HP LTO 3 tape
C7973a

Fuji LTO3 tape
26230010

Dell LTO3 media tapes
341-2647, 0HC591

Quantum LTO-3 tape
MR-L3MQN-01

TDK LTO-3 tape
D2406-LTO3

Imation LTO3 tapes
17535, 17532

Maxell LTO 3 tape
183950

IBM LTO-3 ultrium tapes
24R1922, 96P1203

Sony LTO3 tape
LTX400GWW

In compressed mode, the data transfer rate of ultrium-920 drives double to reach 120 MB/sec. These tape drives come with library & tape tools along with diagnostics and data management software that make troubleshooting more simple, thus resulting in improved storage performance. HP LTO-3 is indeed the best economical solution that can help you to meet the rigorous compliance regulations.

Frank Miller is the Marketing Manager of Backuptape and markets LTO-3 ultrium tape and HP LTO-3 tape drive. 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
3984 Washington Blvd #503 Fremont CA 94538
Tel: 888-686-8273
Fax: 888-449-5050
Email: sales@backuptapes.net