Advanced Powervault Lto-4 Tape Drives Developed By Dell

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The most vital asset for an organization is its data. Unrecoverable or lost data can be very costly for any business enterprise. This loss can either be measured in terms of public image, time and expense. Therefore for the protection of this precious data asset and to comply with the rigorous legislative mandates, the companies must implement a cost effective, secure, high speed and intelligent data storage and retrieval system.

Dell Power-Vault LTO-4 drives offer superior storage security and faster recording speed to accelerate the routine data backups. LTO-4 tape generation is engineered to deliver unmatched data reliability and improved data security. Dell LTO-4 tape offer physical recording capacity of 800GB and transfer rate of 120Mbps (uncompressed). Drive-level encryption functionality of Dell LTO4 tape drive has enhanced its media security capability thus enabling it to protect the recorded information even if the machine is misplaced, stolen or lost in a remote location. Dell LTO-4 tape drives deliver outstanding storage performance at lowest cost per GB.

Dell LTO-4 Power-Vault drive can read ...
... & write data to LTO4 and LTO-3 data tapes. The Dell LTO4 drive can only read the LTO-2 storage tapes. The read & write backward compatible cartridges are given below:

Dell LTO4 tape (341-4640, 341-4647)
TDK LTO4 tape (D2407-LTO4)
Sony LTO-4 media tape (LTX800G)
Fuji LTO-4 (26247007, 15716800)
IBM LTO-4 tape (95P4450, 95P4436 and 95P4437)
Maxell LTO4 tape (183907, 183906)
Sun LTO4 tape (003-4391-01, 003-4392-01 and 003-4396-01)
HP LTO 4 tape, Part number C7974A and C7974W
Imation LTO-4 tape (26596, 26592)
Dell LTO3 tape (0HC591, 341-2647)
Imation LTO3 tape (17533, 17960, 17534 and 17532)
Sun LTO-3 tape (003-0737-01, 003-0513-01, 003-0735-01 and 003-0736-01)
Maxell LTO3 tape (183950, 183900)
TDK LTO3 tape (D2406-LTO3, D2406W-LTO3)
HP LTO 3 tape (C7973W, C7973a)
Sony LTO3 ultrium tape (LTX400GWW)
Fuji LTO3 tape (26230002, 26230012 and 26230010)
Quantum LTO3 tape (MR-L3MQN-01, MR-L3MQN-02)

LTO4 PowerVault tape drive's increased media capacity allows the data administrators to store double the amount of data over the LTO3 ultrium technology. Data rate of Dell LTO-4 has been raised by 50% as compared to the specified data speed for LTO-3 tape. Dell LTO4 tape format allows interchangeability and flexibility through its backward compatibility. Backward compatibility feature has further eased the path of up-gradation.

Dell LTO-4 drives are intelligently designed for improved energy efficiency and low power consumption. This helps to lower the total ownership cost in high demanding data centers, workstations and servers. Drive level encryption technology offered by PowerVault LTO-4 drives assist the business the enterprises to prohibit tampering with the recorded information. Data is encrypted at line speed in the backup tape drive, therefore it has not effect on the overall performance of data throughput.

LTO-4 tape format with its native 120 MB/s has reduced backup windows. The data density of high speed Dell LTO4 cartridge is twice as that of LTO3 media. Power-Vault LTO-4 tape drives are ideally designed to provide data integrity, flexibility, security and cost effective backup storage solution for Dell Power-Vault NAS (network attached storage) and Dell Power Edge servers. Superior compatibly, long working life and enhanced energy efficiency of Dell LTO4 tape products contributes to the lower ownership cost for the data archiving and storage system.

Jessica McIntosh is the Marketing Manager of Tape4backup and markets Dell LTO-4 Tape and Dell LTO3 Tape. She 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.

Jessica McIntosh
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Email: jessica@tape4backup.com