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For future growth, success and proactive management decisions, it is essential that the vital business data should be protected and made available in-time. There are so many threats including software/hardware malfunctions, viruses, unintentional deletions and un-authorized usage that can disrupt the business operations. That is why an ongoing backup routine is critical.

Dell LTO-3 tape products is ideally designed for those data administrators that are seeking for higher storage performance, longer working life, reduced power consumption and low maintenance cost. Customers can efficiently incorporate the high speed Dell LTO-3 tape drive in their storage system. These high speed tape drives are engineered for more flexibility and can fulfill the challenging demands of broad range of I.T environments.

No matter how tough the working and environmental conditions are, Dell PowerVault LTO-3 drive will perform brilliantly under huge workloads. Dell LTO-3 ultrium drives can be attached externally as well as internally with the computer systems. On a single ultrium LTO-3 tape, the users can backup enormous 400GB / 800GB information.

Backward compatibility of PowerVault LTO3 drive goes back 2 generations. Data can be retrieved from LTO-2 and LTO-1, while users can also backup data on LTO 2 tapes. This means that with Dell LTO3 drive the customers can work with 3 versions of LTO tapes. Smaller size of Dell LTO-3 drive helps to conserve valuable space, and its low energy consumption will decrease the operational costs. That is why Dell LTO-3 is the smart choice for data mining, digital audio/video archiving, remote offices and supply chain management.

Protect your sensitive information from being changed or altered with the help of Dell LTO-3 drive’s WORM (write once read many) technology. WORM mechanism is very useful in regulatory compliance, and further strengthens the data security. Dell LTO3 drive attains remarkable speed of 288 GB per hour in native mode. Unique combination of massive capacity and ultra high transfer speed enables the IT managers to pack huge data volumes on fewer tapes in lesser time. Dell LTO-3 tape products are competitively priced, and are built tough for extended useful life and low cost per GB. Dell-branded LTO tapes are listed below:

Dell LTO4 backup tapes
341-4647 and 341-4640

Dell LTO-3 ultrium tapes
0HC591 and 341-2647

Dell LTO-2 tape
340-8701

Dell LTO-1 tape
09W084

CommVault Galaxy, Veritas Backup Exec, Yosemite TapeWare and other industry leading backup software are supported by Dell PowerVault LTO3 drives. Therefore you can select the one which best fits your I.T needs. You can confidently move the Dell ultrium LTO3 cartridges to remote locations, because their durable cartridge shell will protect it from bumps, shocks, mechanical stress and unintentional drops.

Low ownership cost, outstanding compatibility, longer working life and unbeatable performance make Dell ultrium LTO-3 a complete cost effective solution. LTO-3 PowerVault drive comes with a quick start guide and SCSI cables for easy installation, and SCSI terminator that helps in external deployments. Dell LTO-3 tape technology provides you the capacity and storage performance to keep your business running in a cost effective manner.

Maxell as always continues to focus on manufacturing excellence, high quality, scalability, media robustness, increased performance level and innovation. Maxell 183906 tapes are well renowned for their unparalleled huge recording capacity, media reliability, reliable security features, increased scalability and outstanding durability. Maxell offers cost effective LTO4 tape format that features double the capacity of ultrium3 and is the excellent choice for supporting massive storage backups. Highly reliable Maxell LTO-4 cartridge incorporates latest advantageous technologies making it far superior tape storage format to other traditional tape formats. The organizations can easily fulfill the regulations and government policies by adopting the Maxell LTO-4 media technology because it has special unprecedented data security and encryption features. Maxell ultrium-4 tapes have passed the compliance verification process. This process combines various tests that confirm the compatibility of the LTO tapes with other drives & media.

Native transfer speed of 4th generation Maxell LTO is 120 Mbps that doubles after compressing the data (2:1 compression). Maxell has increased the data density and recording performance of LTO-4 tape format, thus resulting in 50% faster speed and 100% increase in recording capacity than ultrium-3 technology. Successful completion of the tests and certification of compliance verification process proves that the Maxell LTO-4 is the most reliable media tape cartridge in all brands of media & tape drives. Outstanding compatibility & interchangeability of fourth generation Maxell LTO data tapes make it the top choice of the high demanding backup environments. All the four tape versions of Maxell LTO ultrium are the first who have efficiently cleared the verification process. This indicates that the LTO tape products engineered by Maxell are best suited for heavy work loads and data intensive environments. Native recording capability of the highly durable LTO-4 Maxell is 800 GB.

The write-once read-many capability employed by Maxell in ultrium-4 has further contributed to elevate its data protection level. The LTO-4 ultrium offers more benefits to its customers and provides the luxury of backward compatibility. Therefore the users can continue their backup operations and archive recorded information from the LTO-3 and LTO2 tapes. So the investments of the clients in the previous LTO generations can easily be extended into the latest fourth generation. High capacity Maxell LTO4 data cartridges are compatible with all the drives based on fourth generation of LTO ultrium. The encryption features of Maxell LTO-4 tape protect the critical user information from theft, data loss and un-authorized access. Hardware based encryption system has been incorporated in Maxell LTO-4 which ensures high level of security.

The secure and efficient backup operations of Maxell LTO-4 support SEC 17a-4, Sarbanes Oxley and many other strict regulations. Increasing volumes of data is efficiently handled by the Maxell LTO4 tapes as they feature superior media stability and high transfer speed. Maxell LTO-4 backup storage format consumes lesser energy than other traditional tape technologies, which leads to low cost backup operations.

HP LTO4 drive offers outstanding efficient features that enable it to record 1600 GB data per cartridge. HP 1840 tape drive provides hardware based encryption mechanism that improves the security features thus ensuring unparalleled data reliability. HP LTO-4 drive has the latest features and innovative architecture that makes it the ideal choice of the enterprises. HP 1840 tape drive represents the LTO-4 tape technology which is the first tape drive by HP that has the capability to record 1.6 TB per ultrium cartridge. Unprecedented performance and efficient encryption technique make the HP LTO-4 drive technology more advantageous and unique. HP 1840 drive delivers unprecedented performance even with the tightest backup windows.

HP LTO4 tape technology is very robust and use friendly that uses AES 256-bit for encrypting the recorded data thus protecting the critical information from unauthorized access and theft. LTO-4 ultrium technology compresses the data with high level of accuracy and reliability thus maximizing the performance and capacity without any loss in the overall efficiency. 1840 tape drive incorporates the latest technologies making it ideal to handle massive data amounts. HP LTO-4 tape drive has the capability to transfer data at a brisk rate of 240MB/second. LTO tape technology is more advantageous, user friendly and economical. HP LTO-4 tape drive is very robust, reliable and cost efficient.

HP 1840 tape drive incorporates a unique mechanism called “data rate matching” that helps to enhance the efficiency. In this technique, the HP LTO-4 tape drive balances the transfer speeds of tape drive with the host in order to sustain the data transfer and enable fastest tape performance. 1840 LTO-4 drive fully supports the LTO3 media (both read and write) and can read data recorded on LTO-2 tape. HP LTO-4 protects the investment. The customers using the HP LTO4 ultrium media will require few LTO-4 cartridges as they have the ability to store more information thus increasing the return on investment and easing the stress of data management. This also helps to reduce the IT costs. WORM technology makes the HP LTO4 format even more cost effective and reliable thus enabling it to meet the strict regulations regarding data storage.

Tape storage industry’s most comprehensive software & hardware platforms are supported by the HP 1840 drive. HP LTO-4 tape drive offers superior compatibility. Numerous drive options are offered which include HP OBDR (One Button Disaster Recovery), HP data express software, HP StorageWorks Library, and tape tools. Error-free and accurate data compressibility is ensured by the HP 1840 tape drive with high level of performance. Confidential and critical information is safely recorded by the HP LTO-4 tape drive and only few cartridges can hold huge data volumes. Unmatched security level and superior compression mechanism is provided by HP LTO-4 to deliver economical data backups. HP 1840 drive delivers unprecedented performance even with the tightest backup windows. Data rate matching enables the HP LTO-4 drive to dynamically make adjustments to the 1840 tape drive’s speed from 40 to 120 MB/second. This helps to lower the amount of start/stops thus enhancing the robustness of HP LTO4 1840 drive.