High Performance Features Of Hp 1840 Lto-4 Tape Drive

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I am going to introduce you to the most powerful, reliable, high capacity and cost efficient LTO-4 1840 ultrium drive. Hewlett-Packard has robustly engineered this ultrium-4 drive which is an ideal choice for data centers, servers and high demanding environments. Users of LTO4 tape format will now need fewer tapes to store their data because there has been a 100% increase in its capacity over the LTO-3 tapes. HP LTO-4 tape technology has been developed to reduce your I.T budget and enable its customers to efficiently record their vital data. Now you can meet the stringent data retention regulations with LTO4 1840 drives as they support the WORM media. Support for WORM media has further enhanced its data protection capability thus allowing the data administrators to manage and secure the valuable documents from theft and un-authorized access.

Industry’s leading software as well as the hardware platforms are supported by the high capacity HP LTO-4 drive. Interfaces supported by the 1840 HP drives are 3-Gbps SAS and SCSI U320. If you are looking to secure your precious data recorded on LTO4 tape cartridges from unauthorized ...
... use and access then HP 1840 drive will certainly be the best suited choice. HP 1840 drives have capability to encrypt your data with highly dependable 256-bit AES technology.

HP 1840 LTO4 drive saves you a large amount of money. Thanks to the 1840 LTO-4 drive’s backward compatibility, your storage needs can be met with lesser amount of I.T budget. HP 1840 drive can write as well as access data from LTO4 & LTO-3 ultrium tapes. These drives cannot write information to the LTO2 tapes but can retrieve data from them. Leading LTO ultrium tape brands are HP, Quantum, Fuji, Sony, Dell, Maxell, Imation, IBM, TDK, Sun and Verbatim. For your convenience, part numbers of some LTO tapes representing the second, third and fourth generations of LTO ultrium that are supported by HP 1840 drive are mentioned here:

C7973a, 183950, D2406W-LTO3, LTX400GWW, D2407-LTO4, LTX800G, 183906, C7972A, 26220001 and D2405-LTO2.

HP 1840 drives perform data compression at 2:1, which means that the transfer rate and the LTO-4 tape cartridge’s capacity will be doubled over its native capability. Data encryption and the data compression processes are preformed by the 1840 HP drive efficiently with superior reliability. HP LTO4 drive maximizes the output frequency and assures data integrity even under heavy workloads.

Cleaning of tape drive is essential so that it can deliver better and consistent performance. High performance LTO cleaning cartridges developed by major media manufacturing companies are:

HP cleaning cartridge (part number C7978A), Fuji LTO cleaning cartridges (part number 26200014), TDK cleaning cartridge (part number D2404-CC), Quantum LTO cleaning cartridge (part number MR-LUCQN-01), Sony cleaning cartridge (part number LTX-CL), Maxell LTO cleaning cartridge (part number 183804), IBM LTO cleaning cartridge (part number 35L2086).

Highly dependable HP LTO4 drive provides easy, cost effective data management thus enabling the data mangers to safely retrieve and store every bit of their precious data at lowest cost.

Frank Miller is the Marketing Manager of Backuptape and markets HP LTO4 tape and C7971A. 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