Improved Performance Of Quantum Sdlt-2 Backup Tape And Sdlt-600 Drive

By Author: Rob Miller
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Over the past decade, there has been an enormous growth in volumes of data, as the organizations are producing new information at an astounding rate. This is where the job of IT managers has become tougher, now they have to store, retrieve and handle massive data volumes.

DLT tape format was specifically developed to cost effectively perform all the backup storage tasks at a remarkable speed. The improved form of this data storage format is the Super DLT (SDLT) technology. Quantum's SDLT tape products provide increased storage performance and improved manageability for your growing businesses.

Quantum SDLT-600 tape drive reflects the vast technological expertise and superior media quality ensured by Quantum in all of its products. This superior quality tape drive boasts 600GB recording capacity in compressed mode. Quantum SDLT-600 drive's transfer rate reaches a blazing speed of 72 Mb/sec. Quantum SDLT-600 backup tape drive provides economical and intelligent solutions for workstations, departmental backups, video professionals and demanding storage environments.

DLTSage is a set of data management ...
... tools that are specifically engineered to assist the data managers in improving the backup storage performance and reducing the media loading time. Quantum SDLT-600 drive takes full advantage of the powerful DLTSage technology. The SDLT-600 drive also offers the write once, read many WORM mechanism at no additional cost. Quantum SDLT-2 tape cartridge can store 300 GB / 600 GB data. Architecture of SDLT-600 has been robustly designed by Quantum to better serve the customers of network servers, and workstations.

SDLT-600 drive and SDLT-2 tape are backed up by Quantum's proven value and media reliability. Quantum SDLT-600 provides impressive and superior media compatibility. Tape drive's backward compatibly with previous version DLT tapes efficiently secures the company's prior DLT investments. SDLT-600 drive can reliably read information from DLT VS-1 and SDLT-1 media cartridges. The below listed backup tapes are read compatible with SDLT-600 drive:

SDLT-1 tape (written on SDLT-220 and SDLT-320 drives)
DLT VS1 tape (written on DLT VS 160 drive)
Quantum SDLT-2 tape, part number MR-S2MQN-01

Highly durable SDLT-600 drive is written compatible with Quantum SDLT2 tape. Quantum also has developed SDLT cleaning cartridge, part number MRSACCL01, which can be reliably used with SDLT-600 tape drive. Quantum SDLT-600 drive offers its clients a high performance suite of data protection tools that assist the IT managers to protect and manage their backup storage in a cost effective manner. With SDLT-600 drive the users can store 256 GB information onto the SDLT-2 backup tape in an hour.

Quantum SDLT-600 drive is intelligently developed to handle the pressure of heavy workloads and assure superior manageability. WORM feature of Quantum SDLT-600 drive helps the organizations to meet regulatory compliance at lowest cost per GB. Quantum SDLT-2 tape cartridges reliably store your priceless data at lowest cost. These backup tapes utilize less shelf space and provide long-term protection.

SDLT-600 drive's DLTSage WORM mechanism provides the data mangers with a comprehensive set of management tools that are compatible with a broad range of software. The users can install the Quantum SDLT-600 drive with different configurations. IT managers can select the drive configurations that best fit their storage environments. You can either go for rack-mount, tabletop or internal server installable.

Rob Miller is the Marketing Manager of Tape4backup and markets DLT Tape and Quantum SDLT-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