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Hewlett Packard StorageWorks LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 SCSI External Tape Drive

The family of HP StorageWorks Ultrium tape drives is HP's premier line of backup devices. Based on the LTO Ultrium format, an open standard with a well-defined six-generation roadmap, HP Ultrium tape drives offer customers the best choice for investment protection. With ultimate reliability and ease of use in mind, even at 100% duty cycles, HP's rugged design builds on superior LTO technology and adds advanced features like hardware data encryption to create a new level of data protection. The tape drives employ dynamic data rate matching to adjust to the speed of the host, reducing wear and tear on both drive and media and increasing performance, even on slower hosts. HP's ultra-durable soft-load feature automatically positions the data cartridge, and the highly reliable HP leader-capture mechanism virtually eliminates lost leaders, increasing the success of your backup and restore operations. Support for HP One-Button Disaster Recovery provides the easiest way to restore data in the event of a disaster.

 The StorageWorks family of tape drives also features support for HP Library and Tape Tools, which provides a single application for drive management, diagnostics, and performance optimization. If data is critical to your business, protect it with an HP StorageWorks Ultrium tape drive.

The Ultrium 1840 provides investment protection with full read and write support with LTO-3 media, and the ability to read LTO-2 cartridge. By doubling the capacity of previous generation Ultrium drives, HP customers now require fewer data cartridges to meet their storage needs, significantly reducing IT costs and increasing ROI.

Support for Write-Once, Read-Many (WORM) media allows customers to implement a cost-effective solution to secure, manage, and archive data to meet stringent compliance regulations.

The LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 Tape Drive provides both U320 SCSI and 3Gbps SAS interfaces and supports the industry's most comprehensive list of compatible hardware and software platforms. Each drive option includes HP Data Protector Express Software Single Server Edition backup/recovery software and the HP Data Protector Express Software Bare Metal Disaster Recovery option, as well as support for HP One-Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR) and HP StorageWorks Library and Tape Tools (L&TT).

CAPACITY : Native - 800 GB
Compressed - 1.6 TB
BUFFER SIZE : 128 MB
DATA TRANSFER RATE : Native - 120 MB/s with LTO 4 media
Compressed - 240 MB/s with LTO 4 media
BURST TRANSFER RATE : 320 MB/s (Ultra320 SCSI)
DATA RATE MATCHING RANGE : 40-120 MB/s
MTBF : 250,000 hours at 100% duty cycle
RECORDING METHOD : 16-channel linear serpentine
WORM MEDIA COMPATIBILITY : Read - LTO Ultrium 4 WORM
Write - LTO Ultrium 4 WORM
FORM FACTOR : 5.25-inch full-height
INTERFACE : Ultra320 SCSI (LVDS)
ENCRYPTION : AES 256 bit
DIMENSION (HxWxD) : 120 x 218 x 297 mm
WEIGHT : 5.57 kg
* Supports WORM capability
* High-performance data transfer that reduces backup windows while reducing
the use of server and network resources
* High-integrity data path including read and write DRAM that protects data
* AES 256 bit data encryption & support for WORM media provide a secure
method for long-term retention of critical data records

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