Superior Features of HP Ultrium-448 LTO-2 Tape Drive
By: Tape4backup
Submitted: 2010-08-17 00:46:01 | Word Count: 630
You future planning and decisions depends on the availability of your previous data. Therefore the company’s precious data should be recorded on a reliable tape storage medium, so that you can easily archive it when needed. Protect your critical data with the efficient LTO-2 tape technology. Ultrium 448 tape drives have been designed & developed by Hewlett-Packard. Ultrium 448 drives belong to the HP StorageWorks family, and are based on the LTO-2 tape technology. HP ultrium 448 drives are designed for low cost storage up to 400GB on a HP LTO-2 data tape, using 2:1 compression.
Greater capacity of HP LTO-2 cartridge means that the customers will need fewer tapes to complete their data backups. The HP LTO-2 448 tape drive reads/writes compressed data at 48 Mbps. At this data rate, the ultrium-448 drive can write half a terabyte of data within 2.5 hours. Output frequency of HP ultrium-448 drive has been elevated with the addition of dynamic data rate matching process. This is an exclusive feature devised by HP for the backup tape drives. Data-rate matching feature assists the HP tape drive to alter its speed according to that of host’s data rate. The drive can adjust its speed in native mode ranging from 8 Mbps to 24 Mbps.
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The backward capability of this HP drive includes the LTO-1 tapes. HP ultrium-448 drive can reliably store and retrieve data from the LTO1 data tapes as efficiently as it does with the LTO-2 backup tapes. All brands of first and second generation LTO tape cartridges are compatible with HP ultrium-448 drive, these LTO tapes have been listed below:
High speed ultrium-448 HP drive is based on half height form factor and enables easy installation into all 5.25 inches media standards. Ultrium 448 tape drives are the excellent choice for mid-range servers. HP LTO-2 drive offers exceptional software compatibility and supports the leading archiving and backup applications from Tivoli, Yosemite, Legato, Hewlett-Packard, CA and many more. Hewlett-Packard offers Disaster Recovery Bare Metal Protector Software and HP Single server Protector recovery/backup Software with its high quality ultrium-448 LTO-2 tape drive.
HP offers more choice to its customers, as both SAS and SCSI models of HP LTO2 drives are available. By utilizing the SAS 3GB/s interface, the data administrators can connect the serial-attached SCSI based servers through SAS hot-bus adapter or SAS controller adapter. HP LTO-2 tape drives deliver excellent results with all the other non-HP servers such as Sun, IBM and Dell.
HP Tape Tools applications and Storage-Works library are also included with ultrium-448 drive, both these assist in performance optimization and simplify the processes of troubleshooting and tape drive management. The user has the luxury to recover the whole system with the special OBDR (one button disaster recovery) functionality of HP ultrium-448 LTO2 drive.
Author Resource:-
Rob Miller is the Marketing Manager of Tape4backup 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.
Rob Miller
34972 Newark Blvd,# 501,Newark CA 94560
Tel: 888-491-4949
Fax: 888-449-5050
Email: rob@tape4backup.com
