Quantum ups tape capacity
Quantum ups tape capacity
Oct 18, 2005: Hot on the heels of Exabyte's VXA tape solution, Quantum has announced the availability of its new DLT-V4 drive.
This latest offering from Quantum is aimed squarely at small to medium sized businesses that want the benefits of larger enterprise systems without the price tag. The DLT-V4 delivers 320 GB of compressed capacity at 72 GB/hour compressed transfer rate. That's four times the capacity and three times the speed of existing DAT 72 tape drives at 12 cents/GB. And it's backwards read compatible to boot.
The DLT-V4 also includes proprietary Quantum features such as DLTSage for predictive and preventive diagnostic manageability and DLTIce for meeting regulatory compliance requirements through standard media and Write Once Read Many (WORM) capability.
"Today's small and medium-sized enterprises now require new storage solutions designed to better protect the ever-increasing volumes of data that fuel their daily business activities," said Brian Garrett, analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group. "[The] DLT-V4 should strongly be evaluated as an effective solution for customers that are looking for enterprise-class functionality with exceptional capacity and performance."
The DLT-V4 tape drive is also the world's first tape drive to ship with a SATA interface, making it easier for customers to attach to entry-level servers.
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