HP DAT-160 tape An Economical Choice For Small And Medium Enterprises Backup Needs

Each and every business has a sole agenda, that is, profit maximization. All businesses try to reduce their costs and increase their profits.  However, nowadays businesses find it difficult to cut down on their I.T costs. The nature of competition in the industry has become so severe that no business can afford to cut down its budget for advertising or human resource management etc. This situations gives rise to a million dollar question, how does a business cut down on its costs? In order to become competitive and outperform the industry like individuals businesses too need to think out of the box.

One of the best ways for ensuring business continuity is to install a backup system that has a low price and allows seamless scalability. Businesses spend a lot of money on purchasing the tapes for their back up system. If they choose a model or product that is not only efficient but lower in price they can save a great deal of money. One example of such a product is HP DAT-160 media tape, part number C8011A. This DDS-6 backup tape has an impressive storage capacity of 160 GB compressed data and 80 GB raw data. The transfer rate of the tape is 12 Megabytes per second.

This makes HP DAT-160 tape the ideal cost effective and efficient data backup medium. HP DAT-160 tape, part number C8011A, is one of the largest selling products of HP in the SMB segment. Users of DDS-6 tape say that high storage capacity and transfer rate of the tape do not in any way compromise its high performance. DDS-6 tape is a perfect medium for backup storage in today’s dynamic world, because there is absolutely no room for disruptions and delays.

If you are interested in installing a new backup system then for obvious reasons, HP DAT-160 tape system should be your first choice. However if you have already installed an older version of Digital Data Storage DDS technology, then you need not worry. DDS-6 tape drive comes with an option of backwards compatibility, this means upgrading from DDS-4 or DAT 72 should be no problem at all. DDS-6 tape drive also has the feature of SCSI and USB compatibility. In order to reduce the weight and make the tape easily portable, the dimensions of the tape have been significantly decreased. The width of the tape is 2.1, depth 0.6 and height 2.9; overall the tape weighs around 1.16 oz.

One of the features that are exclusive to HP DAT-160 tape drive is OBDR. OBDR stands for “One-Button Disaster Recovery” and this allows your business to bounce back instantly if a disaster strikes. It allows you to restore the entire system of your business by simply inserting the latest backup tape and pressing the tape drive button. This option can save IT managers a lot of trouble and of course it can save business a lot of money too. HP is one of the pioneers of technology, so users know when they are buying HP products they are buying nothing but the best of the market.

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Mark Paul Mark Paul is the marketing manager of odsi and publish article on DDs 6 media tapes and C8011A. Mark Paul Online Digital Solutions LLC, 39 Southend Road, East Ham London E62AL Tel: 0203 005 9500 Email: sales@odsi.co.uk