Dell Powervault Lto-4 Tape Drives Are Ideal For Data-intensive Environments

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New innovative technologies, research works, and user information are continuously increasing the data amounts. Therefore the financial institutes and business enterprises are trying to secure and preserve this data with the help of more reliable, high speed, and remarkably cost effective storage technology. The organizations are forced to narrow down their I.T budgets to handle the voluminous data amounts.

Linear tape open (LTO) format has been most preferred tape storage technology since its introduction to the data storage market, which was in the late 1990s. Dell manufactures superior quality LTO products, whose efficient storage solutions enable its clients to address the rigorous data retention laws. Dell LTO-4 tape devices provide reliable media security, greater recording capacity and intelligent storage solution that contribute to the enterprise's increased ROI. The users can easily integrate the Dell LTO-4 PowerVault drives with the Dell ML6000, TL4000 and TL2000 tape libraries. These Dell drives offer more flexibility and can also be used as external peripherals (stand alone).

Keeping in view ...
... the needs of data storage environments, Dell has introduced the LTO-4 tape cartridges with WORM & non-WORM format. WORM featured cartridge is Dell 341-4647. The other Dell LTO-4 tape cartridge which does not support the write-once read-many functionality, and features re-writeable format is Dell 341-4640. Dell PowerVault drives offer the IT managers a cost efficient approach for archiving and storing critical information at an affordable price. Dell LTO-4 PowerVault family features Serial attached SCSI 3 Gbps and 4 Gbps fibre native channel. Your investment in Dell LTO4 technology will be secured, as the Dell LTO-4 format is highly scalable and is backward compatible with LTO-3 tapes (read and write). From the LTO2 media, the backed up data can only be read by Dell PowerVault LTO 4 drive.

With the Dell PowerVault drive you can store and retrieve information from all brands of LTO3. For the readers, a few of these tapes are listed here:

Imation LTO-3 tape (17532)
Sony LTO 3 cartridge (LTX400GWW)
Fuji LTO ultrium-3 (26230010, 26230014)
Sun LTO 3 tape (003-0513-01, 003-0737-01)
HP LTO-3 ultrium (C7973a)
Dell LTO 3 (0HC591)
Imation LTO ultrium-3 tape (17533, 17532)
TDK LTO3 tapes (D2406W-LTO3, D2406-LTO3)
Maxell LTO3 ultrium (183950)

Dell has specifically designed the PowerVault drives for increased output characteristics, enormous capacity, long term protection, high density recordings, stable tracking, tape longevity and low operational costs. Dell PowerVault drive has a reliable tape head that ensures stable tracking, remarkably low error rate, and significantly low media wear during read/write operations in harsh conditions. Now you won't have to worry if you have misplaced or lost your data cartridge in a remote location as the Dell LTO4 PowerVault offers its clients the powerful drive level encryption. 800GB native capacity, 120MB/s data rate and hardware based encryption of Dell LTO4 helps to shorten backup windows and relieves administrative overhead. These advanced features make Dell LTO4 drives and media the ideal choice for data rich environments that require superior data protection and greater performance. When compared with other drives, the Dell PowerVault drive utilizes lesser power to perform its backup operations.

Rob Miller is the Marketing Manager of Tape4backup and markets Dell LTO-4 Tape and Quantum 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.

Rob Miller
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Email: rob@tape4backup.com