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Tape Drive Comparison and Backward Compatibilty

Rent IT provide rental hire and lease of a variety of stand alone tape drive units based on either Ultrium or DLT technologies. The information below tabulates storge size and performance of our stocked models.

Tape Drive Comparison

Drive Type

Native

Compressed

Internal Buffer

File access

 

Capacity & Transfer

Capacity & Transfer

MB

Seconds

Ultrium LTO-4

800GB at 120MB/s

1.6TB at 240MB/s

128

62

Ultrium LTO-3

400GB at 80MB/s

800GB at 160MB/s

128

68

Ultrium LTO-2

200GB at 24MB/s

400GB at 48MB/s

64

49

SDLT 600

300GB at 36MB/s

600GB at 72MB/s

64

79

SDLT 320

160GB at 16MB/s

320GB at 32MB/s

64

70

DLT 8000 (40/80)

40GB at 6MB/s

80GB at 12MB/s

8

60

Tape drives usually have a limited backward compatibilty to previous generations of tape formats. The Ultrium range can normall read and write 1 generation back and can read only 2 generations previous. This information is provided below as a guide to our clients.

Tape Drive Backward Compatibility

Drive Type

Read & Write Compatibilty

Read only Compatibility

Native Tape Type

Ultrium LTO-4

LTO-3 (unencryted)

LTO-2

LTO 4 800/1600 GB data cartridge

Ultrium LTO-3

LTO-2

LTO-1

LTO 3 400/800 GB data cartridge

Ultrium LTO-2

LTO-1

 

LTO 2 200/400 GB data cartridge

SDLT 600

 

SDLT 320, SDLT 220 and DLT VS160

SDLT tape II

SDLT 320

SDLT 220.

DLT 8000, DLT 7000, DLT 4000, DLT1 & DLT VS80

SDLT tape 1

SDLT 220

 

DLT 8000, DLT 7000, DLT 4000, DLT1 & DLT VS 80

SDLT tape 1

DLT 8000 (40/80)

DLT 7000, DLT 4000, DLT 2000XT & DLT 2000

 

DLT tape IV

DLT 7000

DLT 4000, DLT 2000XT & DLT 2000

 

 

DLT 4000

DLT 2000XT & DLT 2000

 

 

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