Business Value
Provides high capacity and fast performance in a half-height tape drive to deliver the security and reliability customers need to safely backup and archive critical data.
Overview
The HP StorageWorks LTO-4 Ultrium 1760 Tape Drive, based on fourth-generation LTO technology, is the highest capacity, fastest performance half-height tape drive in the StorageWorks family providing hardware data encryption to deliver the ultimate direct attach data protection solution for entry level and for midsized customers.
The Ultrium 1760 Tape Drive delivers a compressed storage capacity of 1.6TB per cartridge and a compressed data transfer rate of 576GB per hour. Multiple drive models are available for the compact, half-height Ultrium 1760 Tape Drive including internal, external, and 1U rack-mount model.
AES 256 bit hardware data encryption provides easy-to-enable security to protect the most sensitive data and prevent unauthorized access of tape cartridges. By using LTO-4 encryption, not only is data fully capable of being compressed therefore maximizing capacity, encrypted backups are completed without a loss in performance.
The Ultrium 1760 Tape Drive is fully read and write compatible with all third-generation Ultrium media and offers further investment protection through its backward-read compatibility with second-generation Ultrium media.
The Ultrium 1760 Tape Drive includes HP StorageWorks 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) and supports the industry's most comprehensive list of compatible hardware and software platforms.
Features and Benefits
- High capacity: Stores up to 1.6TB of data on a single data cartridge using 2:1 compression. High capacity drive reduces the costs associated with data protection by requiring fewer data cartridges to complete backups.
- Higher performance with dynamic data rate matching: Provides a compressed data transfer rate of 576GB/hr allowing customers to scale their backup capacities without having to increase their backup windows. HP’s exclusive dynamic data rate matching feature which can match the throughput of the host and reduce starting and stopping the tape drive.
- Half-height form factor for easy installation and integration: Allows for installation into all standard 5.25-inch media bays.
- AES 256 bit hardware data encryption: Provides easy-to-enable security to protect the most sensitive data and prevent unauthorized access of tape cartridges.
- Investment protection: Ships with HP Data Protector Express Single Server Edition backup/recovery software and the HP Data Protector Express Bare Metal Disaster Recovery option.
- Broad connectivity: 3Gb/sec SAS interfaces making it ideal for midrange and departmental servers.
- Software compatibility: Extensive list of supported backup and archiving software applications from HP, CA, Symantec, Yosemite, Legato, Tivoli, and many more.
- Management and diagnostics software included: Tape drive management, performance optimization, and troubleshooting are made simple using the HP StorageWorks Library and Tape Tools application that is included with the HP Ultrium 1760 Tape Drive.
- WORM (Write-Once, Read-Many) media support: For IT organizations with stringent, long-term data retention requirements, LTO-4 WORM (Write-Once, Read-Many) capability offers a simple and secure method for archiving records allowing customers to affordably meet the toughest industry compliance regulations.
- 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. Support for heterogeneous hardware and software platforms provides customers with a single tape drive solution for all environments.
