New Advanced Hp Sdlt 320 Backup Tape Drive

By Author: Rob Miller
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Accounting data, user data, sales data etc. are priceless assets for every organization. The ultimate need is to preserve this data so that the organizations can meet their business objectives and targets. Rigorous data storage laws force the companies to preserve and protect this data over a definite time span. Best solution to satisfy all these needs is the dependable tape storage technology.

HP offers its customers intelligent and economical media storage devices. Advantages and features of high performance DLT (digital linear tape) format have been extended in the new SDLT tape technology. Media capacity and performance of HP SDLT tape have been significantly enhanced over the previous DLT tape technology.

HP SDLT-320 tape drive reliably records your data. This backup tape drive represents the first generation of SDLT format. Your previous investments made in DLT technology will be secured, as you can perform both read and write functions with DLT-IV data tapes by this intelligent HP SDLT-320 drive. With its exceptional backward compatibility, the newly designed HP SDLT 320 drive provides its users with ...
... an easy and economical migration path to enhance their backup storage medium. Reliable DLT IV tape brands are:

IBM DLT IV tape (59H3040)
Maxell DLT 4 tape (183270)
HP DLT IV tape (C5141F)
Quantum DLT 4 tape (THXKD02)
Imation DLT IV tape (16186)
Fuji DLT IV tape (26112088)

HP SDLT 1 tape cartridge, part number C7980A, features a durable medium that provides exceptional stability during read and write operations. Uncompressed and compressed capacity of HP C7980A backup tape is 160 GB and 320 GB respectively. SDLT320 drive supports multiple rack-mount options and ensures greater flexibility, as the drive can be used with either 3-U or 5-U rack mount kit. In 3-U rack mount, the users can install 2 internal SDLT drives and up to 4 internal Super DLT tape drives in 5-U rack mount. 5U rack mount allows 2 internal SCSI buses with support of up to two SDLT backup tape drives per bus. With 3U standard rack mount, the IT managers can use 2 internal SCSI buses with support of one Super DLT drive per bus.

HP SDLT-320 drive also provides an optional cable kit that helps the data managers to extend the internal SCSI buses from 2 to 4 in the 5U rack mount kit. This optional cable kit allow the customers to simultaneously stream all the four SDLT drives, which results in increased data transfer speed. HP has designed a new data recovery tool called DRTape Disaster Recovery Utility. This tool has been added to the HP SDLT 320 tape drive to further improve its media performance.

SDLT-320 drive is intelligently developed to serve the customers through its broad range of software support. The HP drive supports Yosemite Tape-Ware, HP Open View Data Protector, Computer Associates ARCserve, VERITAS Net Backup, DRTape and VERITAS Backup Exec. Operating systems supported by HP SDLT-320 include Caldera Open UNIX, Caldera Open Server, Caldera UnixWare, Caldera Linux, SuSE Linux, Red Hat Linux, OpenVMS, HP Tru64 UNIX, Novell NetWare, HP-UX, Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0.

Rob Miller is the Marketing Manager of Tape4backup and markets DLT IV Tape and Sony SDLT 320 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