The HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 tape drive high-capacity feature reduces costs, provides greater storage consolidation and an exceptional ROI by reducing the number of required data cartridges.
Overview
The HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 tape drive is HP third generation LTO technology which delivers a capacity of 800 GB of compressed data on a single cartridge with a data transfer rate of 160MB/sec. The Ultrium 960 tape drive is fully read and write compatible with LTO-2 data cartridges, and offers a further degree of investment protection through its backward-read compatibility with LTO-1 media. For IT organizations with stringent, long-term data retention requirements, the Ultrium 960's WORM (Write-Once, Read-Many) media support offers a simple and secure method for archiving records as part of a compliance solution to meet the toughest of industry regulations.
What's new
- The HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 external tape drive is now 100% RoHS compliant.
Features & benefits
- Data Rate Matching (DRM): Allows the tape drive to dynamically and continuously adjust the speed of the drive, from 27MB/s to 80MB/s, matching the speed of the host or network.
- LTO Open Standard: Drive technology based on an open standard that provides for media compatibility across all brands of LTO Ultrium products.
- Server Compatibility: Qualified on HP ProLiant, Integrity, 9000, NonStop, and AlphaServers platforms, as well as many servers from other leading vendors such as Dell, IBM, and Sun.
- Software Compatibility: Extensive list of supported backup and archiving software applications from HP, CA, VERITAS, Yosemite, Legato, Tivoli, and many more.
- Support for WORM Media: Able to read and write to new Write-Once Read-Many (WORM) HP Ultrium Data Cartridges.
- Management and Diagnostics Software Included: HP StorageWorks Library and Tape Tools software provides a single application for managing and troubleshooting your tape drive, media and configuration.
- Backup Software Included: Includes HP StorageWorks Data Protector Express Single Server Edition backup/recovery software and the HP StorageWorks Data Protector Express Bare Metal Disaster Recovery option.
- One-Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR) Supported: Firmware-based disaster recovery feature that can restore an entire system using a single Ultrium 960 tape drive and data cartridge. For more information about OBDR, visit the HP website at http://www.hp.com/go/obdr.
