Tandberg Data VXA-172 SCSI Tape Drive Black 400770 Merkblatt

is the world’s only tape drive with “on-demand 

capacity,” offering an affordable and easy on-demand fi rmware 

upgrade that increases the drive’s capacity up to 320 GB* – 

another industry first for Tandberg Data

can also scale capacity by choosing from 

two different tape capacities: 172 GB (X10) or 80GB Tapes (X6) 

full read and write compatibility with all VXA-

2 and VXA-3202 packet tape drives and autoloaders

with all major backup software 

applications and operating systems

products  are  engineered  and 

manufactured by Exabyte, the leading innovator in tape backup 

technology for the past 20 years.

 Packet Technology, the VXA-

172 Packet drive provides up to 172 GBs of capacity per tape 

  with  “on-demand  capacity”  that 

provides customers the fl exibility to upgrade capacity upgrade 

capacity to 320 GB per tape

On-demand capacity from 172 to 320GB*

Transferspeed of up to 86 GB/ hour*

Standard Ultra 160 SCSI interface

Superior compatibility and scalability

Yosemite Backup Software included

3 years warranty

The  VXA-172  offers  an  excellent  combination  of  best-in-class 

hardware  and  tape  price  combined  with  disaster-tested  VXA® 

Packet™ technology to provide customers with a new level of data 

protection value. The VXA-172 Packet drive with up to 172 GBs1 of 

capacity is the fi rst and only tape product with “on-demand capacity” 

that provides customers the fl exibility to scale capacity to 320 GB when 

their storage needs grow.

The VXA-172 Packet drive not only provides more than twice the 

capacity of DDS/DAT, but also offers four times the transfer speed of the 

aging format — all at a lower price. No other tape format on the market 

can compete with the combination of reliability, capacity, speed and 

price offered by the VXA-172 Packet Drive. Over three successive 

generations, VXA products have been disaster tested by Exabyte and 

independent labs under the most severe conditions – including violent

vibration, immersion in volcanic dust, boiling water and hot coffee, and 

even freezing cartridges in ice — to assure reliable and complete data 

restore.

Tandberg Data´s award-winning Packet Technology enables VXA 

Packet drives to read and write data on tape using digital packets, just 

like the Internet. Packet technology provides far superior restore 

integrity, exceptional transfer speeds and scalable capacity. VXA-172 

Packet drives deliver transfer speeds up to 24 MB per second1, 

allowing network administrators to backup 172 GBs* of data (equal to 

one VXA-172 tape) in less than two hours. With Check After Write™ 

and 4 level Reed-Solomon Error Correction, VXA products are the only 

tape devices that are up to 180x more likely to restore your data — even 

from a damaged tape.