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Feb 2, 2012



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Unmatched Backup Performance With HP DAT 160 Tape Format

DAT tape format provides a perfect balance of capacity and affordability for medium and small business environments. DAT tape media format, also called DDS, features a scalable roadmap that features higher data throughput speed of 32 MB/second and 600GB compressed storage capacity. In addition, the DDS/DAT tape generations offers backward compatibility that helps to manage the exploding backup demands regardless of constrained IT budgets and shrinking backup windows.

HP-branded backup storage products are the data administrators’ first choice for many data-rich environments ranging from small networks to large complex servers. HP co-invented this remarkable DAT tape media format. The DAT72 tape (fifth generation), DAT160 tape (sixth generation) and DAT320 tape (seventh generation) formats were also co-invented by HP Hewlett-Packard. HP’s offers a complete line of DDS/DAT tape products ranging from DDS-1 to the seventh generation DAT-320 tape.

HP DAT160 tape is an affordable solution for entry-level workstations, enterprise workgroups, public organizations, un-attended backups, small IT environments and medium sized organizations. Native capacity offered by DAT 160 cartridge is 80 GB. The users can benefit more with 2:1 data compression and get 100% higher storage capacity. 160 gigabytes of compressed data can be seamlessly packed on HP DAT 160 cartridge. Compressed data transfer speed of HP DAT 160 drive is 13.8MB/s. At this rate, you can backup 160GB data within less than 4 hours. That is why the HP DAT160 drives are also trusted for loading mission-critical software on servers and creating backups of operating systems.

HP has developed rack mount, external and internal DAT160 drive models to help data administrators install HP DAT 160 solution in an extremely broader range of business enterprises. DAT 160 tape drive’s exceptional backward compatibility facilitates the DDS4 and DAT72 customers to cost-effectively adopt the next generation DAT 160 format, and use their previous generation DAT tapes with confidence. With HP DAT 160 tape drive, the customers can restore and write data to DDS4 and DAT72 cartridges as well. Part number of HP DAT72 and DDS4 tape is C8010A and C5718A respectively.

Major rivals of DAT160 format are AIT tape, LTO ultrium, RDX cartridge and Travan tape. Good news is that HP offers all of these backup technologies. Some of them are listed below for the readers’ interest:

Q2044A, HP RDX 1TB cartridge

C7973A, HP LTO-3 tape

C4429A, HP Travan TR 5 tape

Q1999A, HP AIT3 tape

C7972A, HP LTO2 ultrium tape

Q1998A, HP AIT2 tape

These HP-branded tapes are specifically designed for busy data centers and SMBs. Maintenance and operational costs of HP DAT 160 drive is lower than rival tape drives. HP has introduced automatic intelligent cleaning mechanism in DAT 160 drive, which will reduce the periodic use of cleaning cartridges. HP C8015A, cleaning cartridge should be used regularly with HP’s DAT 160 tape drive. Unmatched quality, proven reliability and performance of HP DAT 160 devices provides assurance to the customers that it the best solution for their burgeoning backup demands.

Product and software names mentioned throughout this article are trademarks and are sole property of their owners.

Frank Miller is the Marketing Manager of Backuptape and markets
DAT 160 tape
and
HP DAT 160 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

3984 Washington Blvd #503 Fremont CA 94538

Tel: 888-686-8273

Fax: 888-449-5050

Email: sales@backuptapes.net

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