Hp Ultrium-448 Is The Perfect Tape Drive For Lto-2 Ultrium Backup Tapes

By Author: Frank Miller
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Software bugs, power outage, viruses, malicious data access, flood, fire and other natural disasters can completely or partially damage your company’s valuable data. The organizations need robust data protection and high capacity backup solution in their data centers.

LTO backup tape format offers an optimized storage solution for a wide range of organizations. This state-of-the-art tape format continues to flourish and provide highly cost-effective backup performance. Co-founders of LTO format are IBM, Certance and Hewlett-Packard.

HP has a vast expensive and unmatched engineering expertise in backup media devices. HP LTO ultrium products provide a perfect solution for small to large enterprises. To meet the backup challenges of enterprise environments, HP has designed ultrium 448 half-height drive that is based on second generation LTO-2 tape technology. The tape drive features twice the storage performance of preceding LTO-1 tape generation. HP ultrium 448 drive features an outstanding backup rate of 173 GB/hr (compressed).

Capacity of HP LTO-2 tape, part number C7972A, also has doubled over LTO1 ...
... ultrium tape. HP LTO2 cartridge’s native media capacity is 200 GB. HP LTO-2 solution provides the best mix of high speed and greater capacity for complex server environments, mid-range storage management, public organizations, branch offices and small networks. HP ultrium 448 drive can quickly backup 0.5 TB data within 2.5 hours. The drive is fully compatible with LTO2 and LTO1 media, and can perform read/write operations on both tape cartridges. This backward compatibility allows cost-efficient upgrades for the LTO-1 ultrium tape customers and extends their previous tape investments. LTO ultrium tape provides a solid platform that helps the organization to keep pace with growing data amounts.

Table top (external) and internal ultrium-448 drive models are available, along with a space efficient 1U rack-mount model. These drives feature SAS interface. You can easily connect the ultrium 448 tape drive to the SAS servers by using a SAS HBA (host bus adapter). Good news is that you can also embedded SAS controller as well. In order to ensure uninterrupted backups and faster read/write operations, HP has introduced data rate matching feature in ultrium 448 drive. This exclusive feature adjusts the drive speed in accordance with the throughput of host system, thus enabling the tape drive to perform seamlessly and prevent the back-hitching problem.

LTO tape technology’s true multivendor compatibility combined with low ongoing ownership cost and ease of use makes it an attractive tape-based solution for value conscious IT managers. Some of the popular LTO cartridge brands are Verbatim, Dell, IBM, Imation, TDK, Quantum, Fuji and Dell. LTO-5 tape is the highest capacity version of LTO ultrium format, which offers 1.5TB native media capacity. HP ultrium-448 drive offers remarkable compatibility with HP servers, as well as other market leading servers from IBM, Dell and Sun. Thanks to the improved capacity and performance of HP LTO 2 tape products, you can complete your backups within a reasonable time frame, and be confident of superior reliability.

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Frank Miller is the Marketing Manager of Backuptape and markets LTO-2 tape and HP LTO-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.

Frank Miller
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