Ibm Ts2340 Tape Drive Performs Excellently With 95p4436, Lto Ultrium 4 Tape

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Your corporate data is in fact the most precious asset. On the basis of this data, the management sets its future goals and devises the strategy to achieve them. Three leading companies (HP, Seagate and IBM) co-developed the LTO ultrium format to help IT managers achieve their data protection objectives and reliably backup/archive the corporate data, without compromising on performance and reliability. Since its introduction, LTO media tape format has solidified its position as a market leader in tape industry.

IBM LTO solutions provide its customers convenience, exceptional compatibility, robust data security and superior storage value. Data administrators of fast-paced businesses and mid-sized organizations can count on IBM’s fourth generation LTO4 technology. In addition, IBM LTO4 tape format is ideally-suited to modern information systems, midrange backup management, data mining, popular servers, network backups and complex data centers. LTO ultrium4 tape can hold twice the amount of data than its prior tape version LTO3 media. Data recording capacity offered by LTO 3 backup tape is 400GB / 800GB. On the other ...
... hand, the next higher capacity LTO4 media cartridge can squeeze 800GB native and 1.6TB compressed data.

To help satisfy the stringent needs of modern business applications, IBM has developed a space-efficient and high speed TS2340, external LTO4 drive. It can also be easily configured with rack mount kit. SAS and SCSI interfaces provide seamless connectivity and superior performance with IBM’s System x, System i and System p servers. That’s not all, it is also a smart choice for UNIX, Sun Solaris and HP-UX servers.

TS2340 LTO4 drive is 50% faster than LTO3 drive. TS2340 LTO4 drive achieves a super-fast throughput speed of 240 Mbps (compressed) compared to the 160 Mbps for LTO3 drive.

Two different models of IBM LTO ultrium4 tape are available, which are WORM-enabled and rewritable backup tapes. Respective part numbers of these IBM LTO 4 media tapes are 95P4450 and 95P4436. By utilizing the WORM media, you can be assured of absolute protection against common operating errors such as unintentional alterations or erasures. In addition, the data security has been further intensified with the addition of hardware-based data encryption system. So reliably preserve your sensitive business data and meet the regulatory compliance needs at a superior value.

The LTO customers have the luxury to use the backup tapes with all other brands of drives, thus proving more cost benefits through its multi-vendor compatibility. Backup media portfolio of IBM is richest within the industry. Some of other IBM’s major backup solutions include RDX cartridge, Super DLT tape, DDS/DAT and DLT tape. Your data is safe with IBM backup media products.

Main selling point of TS2340, LTO4 tape drive is its remarkable capability to write sixteen data tracks at a time, along with two-generation backward read compatibility. TS2340 drive can seamlessly write and also retrieve stored data from LTO ultrium 4 and LTO3 cartridges with improved rates.

IBM LTO ultrium4 solution satisfies your offsite & onsite data protection needs, and provides a trouble-free growth path.

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