New Advanced Hp Dat-320 Backup Tape Technology

By Author: Rob Miller
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DDS (digital data storage) tape format offers a comprehensive and economical backup solution that has been engineered to secure the mission critical data at an affordable cost. DDS tape technology is ideal for those businesses enterprises that have small I.T budgets and are looking for new backup storage mediums to meet their increasing backup needs. DDS is a competitively priced solution that assures long term protection.

Backup media devices developed by HP reflect its superior I.T expertise and technical leadership. HP manufactures all versions of DDS tape products including drives and tape media cartridges. HP has used its technical expertise to develop high capacity DAT-320 tape drives. These high performance tape drives are built on industry standards, and are available in different models that enable you to connect internally and externally with the system. In order to satisfy the requirements of data retention laws, the WORM technique has been incorporated in DAT-320 tape drives.

HP DAT-320 tape technology offers the perfect balance of price & performance. HP DAT-320 is ideally suited for ...
... small and medium businesses, departmental backups, workgroups and remote offices. Highly reliable HP DAT-320 drives feature the ability to support high density recordings at 86 GB/hr compressed data rate. Storage capacity offered by HP DAT-320 cartridge is 160GB/320GB. DAT-320 tape cartridges features 100% increase in storage capacity and 75% increase in performance over its predecessor DAT-160 tapes.

Backward compatibility feature and scalability of backup tape technology are critical to your investment protection. DDS tape format offers both these advantageous and cost saving features to optimize the performance and data throughput. HP DAT-320 drives feature the ability to perform read/record functions on DAT-160 tape cartridges as well. Therefore you can use both the DAT-320 and DAT-160 backup tapes. Exceptional backward compatibility provides a seamless up-gradation path for the previous DDS generations. HP DAT-320 drive performs excellently in all server environments.

Top selling DAT-320 and DAT-160 brands are listed below:

HP DAT-320 backup tape
Q2032A

Sony DAT-320 tape
DGDAT320

HP DAT-160 tape
C8011A

IBM DAT160 tape cartridge
23R5635

Maxell DAT-160 tape
230020

Sony DAT-160 tape
DGDAT160

Quantum DAT-160 tape
MR-D6MQN-01

Imation DAT-160 tape
26837

TDK DAT-160 tape
27822

HP DAT-320 drives deliver excellent performance and accuracy with 50 percent less energy consumption as compared to DAT-160 tape drives. Introduction of USB 2.0 interface in DAT-320 drive enables you to initiate the backup operations in less than 60 seconds. Q2039A, DAT-320 cleaning cartridge has been manufactured by HP and delivers excellent performance with all HP DAT-320 tape drives.

HP DAT-320 drive features 64MB data buffer, which boosts the data searching and data transfer speeds. Good news is that the users can effortlessly restore their precious data just by touching a single OBDR (One Button Disaster Recovery) button. This is really an incredible feature that assures robust protection. OBDR functionality is available in all the HP DAT tape generations. HP DAT-320 drives come with multiple interfaces including USB 2.0, 3 GB/s SAS and Ultra160 LVD SCSI. This provides the data manages more options and allow you to use the DAT-320 drives in wide range of working environments.

Rob Miller is the Marketing Manager of Tape4backup and markets HP DAT 320 tape and HP DAT Q2032A 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