Greater Media Flexibility Offered By Dlt And Sdlt Tape Storage Technologies

By Author: Frank Miller
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Storage demands of organizations have skyrocketed over the past decade, as terabytes of information is being added to the existing data each day. You never know when your sensitive data might get affected from viruses, accidental deletions, data over-writing and hard/ware software mal-functions. A reliable backup tape medium is necessary to overcome such problems.

DLT tape format has established itself as an industry leading technology for the small and mid-range backup & archive applications. DLT backup tape technology has earned this position by offering unmatched reliability, increased media capacity, smooth migration path, low ownership cost and impressive scalability. DLT technology is robustly engineered to better serve the needs and demands of data centers and data intensive backup applications. It has been ensured that backward compatibility feature is available in each generation to secure the customers' investments.

Native capacity offerings of DLT backup tapes range from 10 GB to 800 GB. DLT tape is a robust long-term archival cartridge that features an incredible useful life of 30 years ...
... or more. DLT data tapes provide superior resistance against humidity, debris, pollutants and extreme temperatures.

Performance and capacity of the DLT technology had to be further enhanced to enable it to meet the needs of high end network servers, larger financial databases, E-mail archiving, busy data centers, E-businesses and digital video/audio archiving. Therefore the features of DLT were enhanced and the next generation SDLT tape format was introduced into the market. SDLT tape technology is intelligently developed to support wide range of environments ranging from entry level servers to the corporate level automated backup applications. Minimum storage capacity offered by SDLT data tapes is 110GB, which extends up to 300 GB.

SDLT is a unique and innovative tape format that provides the advantageous features of magnetic tape and optical storage technologies. This unique combination has been made possible by the LGMR (Laser Guided Magnetic Recording) mechanism. LGMR has helped to increase the bit density of the tape media, thus allowing more data to be stored on same tape amount. Increased bit density means that the data searching process will also become faster and more efficient. SDLT 1 tape drive can access the DLT-4 tape cartridges while the SDLT-2 drive provides compatibility with SDLT-1 and DLT VS-1 data tapes. DLT and SDLT tape cartridges are being manufactured by the leading companies including Sony, HP, Fuji, Quantum, Maxell, Imation, IBM and Dell. Part numbers of major DLT and SDLT tapes have been listed below:

Maxell SDLT-2 tape
183715

Quantum SDLT-II tape
MR-S2MQN-01

Fuji SDLT 2 tape
26300201

Quantum SDLT-1 tape
MR-SAMCL-01

Sony SDLT 1 tape
SDLT1-320

Imation DLT-4 tape
16186

IBM DLT-IV tape
59H3040

Maxell DLT 4 tape
183270

You can be assured of investment protection, because the customers of DLT tape technology can easily upgrade their systems to the next DLT generation and even to the SDLT technology, and still have accessibility to the prior tape versions. Users can be confident of unmatched performance by the DLT and SDLT technology, because it is backed up by the world's major technology providing companies.

Frank Miller is the Marketing Manager of Backuptape and markets DLT Tape and SDLT 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.

Frank Miller
3984 Washington Blvd #503 Fremont CA 94538
Tel: 888-686-8273
Fax: 888-449-5050
Email: sales@backuptapes.net