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actiData announces availability of improved Version 2 ‘Performance Class’ SAS LTO Tape Drives
August 31, 2011
actiData today announced the release of their new Version 2 ‘Performance Class’ range of SAS LTO Tape Drives from IBM. With improved functionality and data transfer rates, the performance class SAS drives offer a host of benefits when compared with competitors’ products:
• Across the range of LTO-3, -4 and -5 tape drives, SAS interfaces have been upgraded to 6GB/sec, with a burst rate of 600MB/sec – for LTO3 and LTO4, actiData / IBM are the only manufacturers to offer a 6GB SAS interface at present.
• LTO5 SAS Tape Drives from actiData now come as standard with a dual interface, allowing two servers to be direct attached to an external drive.
• Advanced Adaptive Read Channel and Zurich Synchronous Servo Channel are features unique to actiData / IBM LTO5 Tape Drives, and achieve lower Error rates, better signal tracking, and higher reliability.
• De-Compression & De-Encryption on the fly enables actiData / IBM LTO5 drives to correct errors on-the-fly to ensure accurate reads and writes
• Lower Power consumption compared with competitive products – 24W Max Vs. 34W Max for competitor drives, 6.5W idle vs. 7W idle for competitor drives.
• Improved Load to ready time of just 12 seconds, Vs. 19 seconds for competitor drives
• actiData / IBM LTO5 Drives now offer LTFS Support. LTFS (Linear Tape File System) allows the usage of a tape drive as simple as a standard USB stick or an external HDD. Copy & Paste, Transparent folder structure, Exchanging data in different operating systems. All LTO Gen5 drives manufacture support LTFS (HP, IBM, Quantum) however only IBM currently support LTFS Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit, which enables LTFS content exchange between Mac, Linux and Windows7.
actiData LTO Drives are available for resellers in Australia exclusively from TData, they come as standard with a 3 year advanced replacement warranty (extendable to 4 or 5 years) and bundled with Symantec Backup Exec QuickStart Edition. For more information or pricing call TData (02) 8852 5000, or email sales@tdata.com.au