Storage Media

With an installed base of more than 19 million drives and 6 million users, DDS/DAT is easily the world’s most popular tape storage format. The latest generation of this simple and successful format is delivered by the HP DAT 320 tape storage solution, providing a 12 MB/sec transfer rate and up to 320 GB capacity on a single cartridge. New manufacturing and recording technologies have created a tough, lightweight, high capacity, high performance media that more than measures up to the uncompromising storage demands of today’s dynamic, risk-aware businesses. DDS/DAT provides a reliable, low-cost, easy-to-use backup solution for small to medium-sized businesses to meet increasing storage demands and compliance criteria. A Storage Media Kit is also available, providing a complete tape media solution in one easy to buy product.

Exhaustively tested, HPE LTO Ultrium cartridges meet all your demands for maximum reliability when restoring data, offering high storage density, ease of management and scalable storage and backup performance. Covering seven generations of capacity - LTO-1 (200 GB), LTO-2 (400 GB), LTO-3 (800 GB), LTO-4 (1.6 TB), LTO-5 (3 TB), LTO-6 (6.25 TB), LTO-7 (15 TB) – and with transfer speeds of up to 2.5 TB/hr for LTO-7, there is a platform for every need and budget. From LTO-3 onwards, LTO Ultrium WORM cartridges enable the creation of compliant, permanent and tamperproof archives. From LTO-4 onwards, secure AES-256 encryption provides even higher levels of data security and compliance with the most stringent industry regulations to prevent unauthorized data access.

Quantum’s LTO Ultrium media is manufactured to the highest industry standards for quality and reliability ensuring high performance and durability, whether utilized for primary backup or long-term archive. - A pioneer of the LTO Consortium, Quantum is committed to the continued development of the LTO platform. Quantum’s comprehensive media quality monitoring and extensive interoperability testing ensures cross- platform compatibility, optimal performance, and reliability whether you’re using a Quantum tape drive, library, or other LTO- compatible hardware.

The AIT format employs Sony's highly regarded magnetic recording technology for commercial recording devices. AIT is superior in reliability and performance to all other data-storage media in the world. The SDX2-50W cartridge features the newly developed non-contact R-MIC (Remote Memory In Cassette) system, in which IC-card memory technology is used to enable faster and easier control

Sony AIT (Advanced Intelligent Tape) format is intelligently engineered to stand apart - no other tape cartridge features both an MIC chip (the brains) and a pure metal magnetic layer designed for highest capacity and longevity (the brawn). MIC (Memory in Cassette) - The AIT cartridges feature a built-in flash memory chip that stores directory and operational information. The result is rapid access to desired data and greatly reduced loading and ejection times. Sony AIT-2 Tape Cartridge is a reliable part of AIT (Advanced Intelligent Tape) is a proprietary advanced technology developed by Sony. AIT is an ideal for small and medium size businesses that necessitate soaring capacity, high performance storage cartridge through shortened on-spot storage space

Quantum LTO4 mixed with linear, bi directional arrangement and multi channel formats with enhanced Servo technology, track layout, data compression, and failure protection adjustment. These results are a dependable and completely trustworthy cartridge that offers exceptional performance and almost the double the storage capacity of LTO 3 data storage tapes. Quantum LTO4 provides better coating techniques with excellent and most significant, great formulation of particularly fine metal particles with higher dispersion system and generates an excellent base film. That is able to hold 896 data tracks with 820M long tape and 12.65mm wide, Quantum LTO-4 also enhanced recording density with inspiring enlarged data storage capacity 800GB native and 1600GB compressed with quick and reliable data transfer speed of 120MB/Sec native and 240MB/Sec compressed.

The IBM LTO6 Tape is enhanced media cartridge that has the huge capacity with more security to information and archival data. These statistics are astonishing since the first LTO-1 Ultrium tape introduced 13 years ago. The unbelievable 2.5TB native and 6.25TB compressed data storage capacity can preserve on a small cartridge. In addition to the remarkable and rapid data, transfer speed increased by 160MB/Sec native and 400MB/Sec compressed data with excellent improved 2.5:1 Compression Rate