Long Term Protection With Hp Sdlt-2 Tape Technology

By Author: Frank Miller
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Protection and backup of mission critical data is vital for organization sustainability and future growth. Tremendous growth in volume of data has significantly increased the need for faster, reliable and higher capacity media storage solutions.

SDLT tape format provides you a low cost per GB solution that features robust media technologies and increased performance to handle the information storage challenge.

HP’s tape storage products are trusted and preferred by the leading enterprises.

HP SDLT-2 tape technology delivers long term reliability, unmatched performance and improved cost effectiveness. HP SDLT-2 tape devices perform excellently in a wide range of environments including SMBs, workgroups, public organizations, remote offices and departmental servers. HP SDLT-2 cartridge can house 600 GB compressed data.

HP SDLT 600 drive is based on SDLT-2 technology. HP has designed new robust MR (magnetic resistive) head that enables the SDLT-600 drive to deliver industry-leading recording density. This allows the small sized HP SDLT2 cartridge to pack more volume of data.

HP SDLT-2 ...
... tape devices extend the powerful features of SDLT tape format.

SDLT-600 drive provides you a link to extract the recorded data from the previous generation SDLT-1 tapes. The customers of SDLT tape format are provided a trouble-free transition path to the next generation.

Total ownership cost of HP SDLT-2 tape technology is further lowered, because of the reduced number of data tapes needed to backup and archive large data amounts. High performance SDLT-600 tape drive ensures rock solid reliability and exceptional tape stability at a compressed rate of 72 Mbps. This makes SDLT-600 drive the best optimal solution for busy data centers and data rich applications. For regulatory compliance, HP has introduced the WORM functionality in its SDLT-2 tape products. WORM is the most reliable mechanism to prohibit over-writes, alterations and accidental data deletions.

Popular brands of SDLT-II tape backup cartridges are listed below:

HP SDLT-II tape
Q2020A

Imation SDLT-2 tapes
16988
18040

Maxell SDLT-2 tape
183715

Fuji SDLT-2 tape
26300201

Quantum SDLT II tape
MR-S2MQN-01

Strength and bit density of SDLT-2 tape media has been improved with the introduction of highly advanced eMP60 media formulation. HP has further reduced the size of magnetic particles and has applied a thinner magnetic layer to enhance the tape strength and track density. 10% reduction in tape thickness has allowed packing longer tape reel without increasing the size of HP SDLT-2 tape cartridge.

SDLT-600 tape drive ensures high speed data compression at 2:1. This feature provides you 100% increase in media capacity and throughput rate. Fast speed SDLT-600 drive provides excellent performance with ARC-Serve, Backup Exec, HP Data Protector and other storage applications.

New tape buckling system allows smooth tape winding and tape movement during high duty cycles to elevate the recording performance. This also helps to reduce tape friction, ultimately resulting in tape longevity and superior data accuracy. OBDR (one button disaster recovery) is an advantageous mechanism of HP SDLT-600 drive, which significantly reduce downtime and the entire stored data can be retrieved just by pressing a button.

HP SDLT-2 devices are equipped with advantageous, high performance features that assist the data administrators to meet their backup requirements in a cost effective manner.

All product and software names mentioned in the article are trademarks and are sole-property of their owners.

Frank Miller is the Marketing Manager of Backuptape and markets SDLT tape and HP 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
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