Rigorously Engineered Exabyte Vxa Tape Storage Technology

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Data managers of today's business enterprises expect more from their backup storage systems. They have to handle vast amount of mission critical information, and assure their integrity and long-term preservation with lower maintenance & operational costs.

Exabyte is an industry leading manufacturer of tape storage products. Exabyte is a globally recognized media leader, who has introduced new innovative engineering approach to develop new VXA tape format. This new breakthrough VXA format has established new industry standards for data reliability, quality and performance in tape automation and tape drives. VXA is the first tape storage format that has introduced an entirely different and innovative approach to data storage technology. VXA tape technology is many times reliable and cost efficient than helical-scan and linear technologies.

VXA tape format offers a reliable and efficient solution to the common problem of the traditional tape drives. Conventional tape drives require precise head to tape alignment. A slight disturbance in this alignment can result in failure of backup operations. This is ...
... called back-hitching. It affects the overall storage performance to a great extent.

Exabyte has leveraged its technical excellence to develop new discrete packet technology, which has intelligently solved the problem of back-hitching. Therefore with intelligent VXA tape technology, you can be assured of unprecedented performance and superior data integrity. Data is broken into smaller data packets and unique address is assigned to them. Data packet system is no doubt the most significant technological advancement in the backup tape industry in more than a decade.

Compressed storage capacity of Exabyte VXA-2 tape reaches a maximum of 160 GB, and 80GB in VXA-1 tape cartridges. Exabyte's VXA tape devices provide greater media reliability, long term protection and faster transfer speeds at a competitive price. VXA tape drives store and retrieve information at a faster speed and with greater reliability, because they sweep the entire face of the tape reel. On the other hand the track based drives sequentially trace every tiny track on the storage medium, which is more time consuming.

Listed below are the high performance VXA-2 and VXA-1 tapes developed by Exabyte:

Exabyte VXA-1 tape 66 GB
11100103

Exabyte VXA-1 tape 40 GB
11100200

Exabyte VXA-1 tape 24 GB
11100100

Exabyte VXA-1 tape 40 GB
11100106

Exabyte VXA-2 tape 160 GB
11100221

Exabyte VXA-2 tape 80 GB
11100206

The VXA drives gather and reassemble the data packets in their buffer to ensure rock solid reliability. Data packet technology has helped to eliminate the need for highly mechanized drive components, thus resulting in greater cost efficiency and increased backup performance at a lower cost. Leading OEMs (original equipment manufacturer) including Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Apple, IBM and Fujitsu Limited have adopted the VXA tape technology, which proves that it has established it self as a leading tape standard.

Exabyte VXA tape devices offers perfect combination of low cost per GB, enhance reliability and incredibly faster transfer speed, all at an economical price. Independent labs and Exabyte itself rigorously tests its VXA tape devices in severe working conditions to ensure their exceptional restore capability and media performance.

Rob Miller is the Marketing Manager of Tape4backup and markets VXA Tape and Exabyte VXA-1 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