Store Your Data Reliably And Economically With Exabyte Vxa 2 Tape Format

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In today’s competitive business environment, the companies of all sizes are focusing on securing and creating backups of customer and corporate data. Due to the stringent regulatory compliance demands, backup storage has become critical. The medium and small business industry turns to VXA tape storage format that features new cutting-edge technologies and unmatched reliability. With exclusive “data packet” and 4-level Reed-Solomon error correction technologies, the VXA tape devices are 180 times more likely to retrieve the recorded information from a damaged VXA backup tape.

Exabyte is a world leading manufacturer of small and mid-range backup tape automation solutions for more than 25 years. Exabyte carefully focuses on providing user-friendly, intelligent and high performance tape media solutions at the best price. Exabyte VXA-2 tape provides a reliable backup solution for small networks, distributed computing systems, workgroups, mid-sized businesses and departmental servers. Small sized VXA 2 tape cartridge can hold large data amount of 80 GB (uncompressed), thus enabling the users to backup their business ...
... data onto fewer VXA2 tapes.

Exabyte has introduced IDE, FireWire and ultra2 LVD/SE SCSI interfaces in its VXA 2 drives. That’s not all; Exabyte has developed internal and external VXA-2 drives, thus providing exceptional compatibility to a wider spectrum of data centers and SMB environments. Exabyte VXA 2 drive achieves 6 Mbps native throughput speed, and ensures superior data integrity at 2:1 compression rate. This enables the VXA 2 tape cartridge to backup 160GB compressed data at a remarkable transfer rate of 12MB/sec.

Exabyte VXA-2 drive ensures supreme reliability through its innovative data packet technology. The data is broken into smaller individually addressed chunks, which are read and written by 4 over-lapping drive heads. This innovative approach has helped to eliminate the track alignment errors and increase the throughput speed. After reading the data packets, the VXA tape drive reassembles them and verifies its integrity through Reed-Solomon 4 level error correction code. Exabyte VXA 2 drives have been designed to read and record data onto its predecessor VXA1 cartridge as well. This exceptional compatibility extends your previous VXA investments and ensures seamless upgrades.

Imation, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba, IBM, Compaq, TDK and many other leading OEMs are supporting the VXA tape media format. Following are the part numbers of few VXA tapes from IBM and Exabyte:

24R2137, IBM VXA2 tape
24R2134, IBM VXA-1 tape 20GB/40GB capacity
24R2136, IBM VXA-1 tape 40GB/80GB capacity

11100221, Exabyte VXA2 tape
11100100, Exabyte VXA-1 tape 12GB/24GB capacity
11100103, Exabyte VXA-1 tape 33GB/66GB capacity
11100200, Exabyte VXA-1 tape 20GB/40GB capacity

Exabyte VXA2 drive can quickly backup large data amount of 21.6 GB in an hour. Off-site data storage is a smart decision that facilitates the organizations to recover their customer and business data in event of a disaster. Exabyte VXA 2 cartridges are built tough to provide secure offsite storage and ensure safe transportation to remote sites.

With a lower acquisition cost and longer working life, Exabyte VXA 2 tape technology provides the best storage value. Product and software names mentioned throughout this article are trademarks and are sole property of their owners.

Rob Miller is the Marketing Manager of Tape4backup and markets VXA-2 tape and Exabyte VXA 2 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