HP LTO-4 Tape Format Is Ideal For Demanding Applications
By: Tape4backup
Submitted: 2009-11-13 00:51:52 | Word Count: 540
The 1840 LTO-4 tape drive manufactured by Hewlett-Packard provides protection to the enterprise’s investments along with full support to the LTO-3 backup media (read & write). HP LTO-4 tape drive has the advantageous capability to read the cartridges of second generation LTO-2 tapes. HP ultrium-4 drive features outstanding attributes that increase its resistance and performance level under heavy work cycles. HP has doubled the capacity in the LTO-4 media technology. Therefore now the customers of HP LTO-4 tape technology will have to need only few tape cartridges that will be enough to accommodate their massive storage needs. This has helped the I.T administrators to control the I.T costs. So now the enterprises can fulfill their storage requirements by making lesser investments on HP LTO-4 backup storage products with increased output level and data reliability.
The organizations that have made their investments in the HP LTO-4 tape technology have significantly increased their ROI. HP LTO4 ultrium format has enabled the businesses to create backups of their critical data at an affordable price. The technology of write-once read many has made the HP LTO-4 storage technology even more cost effective thus assisting the customers to satisfy the strict compliance regulations. The interfaces options offered by HP 1840 tape drive are SAS 3GB/sec and U-320 SCSI. HP LTO-4 format is very advantageous as it supports all the industry’s leading software & hardware platforms. The HP LTO-4 drive offers numerous new innovative features like HP data protector disaster recovery, OBDR (one button disaster recovery) and HP single server software recovery software. Hewlett-Packard tape drive also features library & tape tools.
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1840 tape drive ensures smooth transfer of data at an ultra high rate of 240 Mbps which is very much faster than the other media storage formats. Hewlett-Packard has engineered an innovative new feature that helps to optimize the output frequency of LTO-4 tape drive. This latest feature is data rate matching that controls the speed of tape drive and matches it with host’s transfer rate. Therefore, by the implementation of data rate matching technology, the performance level of the LTO-4 tape drive is stabilized thus enabling the drive to read/write information at lowest cost per GB.
HP fourth generation tape drive’s capabilities have been further enhanced to deliver unrivaled performance and media reliability. It features high speed backup capability that can record huge data of 1.6 Terabytes on a single LTO-4 tape in a more cost effective manner. Security features of LTO-4 technology are unrivaled and its hard ware based encryption ensures long term data protection at lowest cost. 1840 tape drive designed by Hewlett-Packard is highly efficient and secures the user’s critical information. It prohibits any un-authorized access and modifications to the backup data. HP LTO-4 tape drive compresses the information with increased level of precision thus maximizing the recording capability of the ultrium-4 media tapes. Highly secure encryption mechanism performs its functions without disturbing the performance level.
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LTO tape technology is more advantageous, user friendly and economical. HP LTO-4 tape drive is very robust, reliable and cost efficient. Highly durable HP 1840 tape drive is available at tape4backup.
