| TANDBERG
440LTO Tape Drive
To help meet the twin challenges of today's enterprise environment-rapid
data growth and shrinking backup windows-TANDBERG DATA has
introduced the second-generation LTO Tape Drive.Using advanced
technologies,this tape drive offers more than twice the data
transfer rates of the preceding generation and doubles the
cartridge capacity when used with Ultrium2 media.
COMPATIBILITY WITH FIRST GENERATION
LTO TECHNOLOGY
The Tandberg Storage Solution 440LTO can also help improve
performance when used with first-generation Ultrium media;
however, using Ultrium 2 media can require fewer tapes to
help lower cost of ownership. Coexistence with first-genera-tion
Ultrium tape technology is designed to allow for upgrades,
helping to protect customers' investments in drives, media
and tape automation platforms.
FLEXIBLE ATTACHMENT
The Ultra-160 SCSI attachment is designed to allow standalone
servers to exploit the tape drive when natively attached.
LOW COST OF OWNERSHIP
Exploiting the performance and capacity of the Tandberg 440LTO
can help reduce the number of tape cartridges, tape drives
and tape libraries required in a storage environment, allowing
exi-sting customers to expand their current installa-tion
and new customers to install a cost-effective solution.
SECOND GENERATION ENHANCEMENTS
The Tandberg Storage Solution 440LTO features several technology
enhancements designed to help optimize data throughput, increase
cartridge capacity and provide excellent data protection:
Digital speed matching (DSM) is designed to allow the drive
to adjust its native data rate to clo-sely match the host
data rate. This feature, along with an increased buffer, can
help improve throughput in an environment where the host data
rate is less than optimal A 64 MB buffer works in combination
with DSM to help mask the impact of data rate fluctuations
by helping reduce backhitch operations to allow the tape drive
to perform at its optimal speed. The Partial Response Maximum
Likelihood (PRML) channel is used to read and write new tapes,
while maintaining first-generation Ultrium peak-detect technology
to allow backwards com-patibility. |
