HP intros Storage Works tape drive

HP announced the launch of the HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 Tape Drive,
rep-resenting the third generation of LTO (Linear Tape Open) technology. The
tape comes with both rewritable and Write-Once Read-Many (WORM) data cartridges,
that prevent acci-dental or intentional overwrite or erasure of data. It
provides enterprise-class data protection features for mid-range and enterprise
servers and small hard drive arrays.

The Ultrium 960 offers 800 GB of compressed capacity, at a 160
megabytes-per-second compressed transfer rate. It also provides industry-first
support for an Ultra320 SCSI interface. 

The tape drive delivers twice the capacity and more than double the
performance of HP's previous generation of Ultrium tape drives. The higher
capacity reduces the costs associated with data protection by requiring fewer
data cartridges to complete backups and the increased performance allows
customers to scale their backup capaci-ties without having to increase their
backup windows.

The Ultrium 960 claims to be the industry's first Ultrium tape drive to
support WORM data cartridges. This provides customers with a more secure, simple
and cost-effective method of archiving data to satisfy long-term data retention
and regulatory compliance requirements. WORM tape provides users with the
ability to store petabytes of unaltera-ble data for secure off-site storage at a
fraction of the cost of disk storage. The drive also offers an exclusive to
HP One-Button Disaster Recovery (OB-DR) utility to minimize recovery time in the
event of a disa-ster. HP also offers an exclusive data rate-matching
feature with its Ultrium 960 drives.

This feature allows the tape drive to adjust its transfer rate to the speed
of the host system. Data rate matching keeps the data to the drive streaming,
reducing the need to rewind the tape back and forth to wait for the host. The
feature opti-mizes performance and redu-ces wear and tear on drives for
increased reliability. 

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