HP 1840 EH854A Data Sheet

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HP StorageWorks LTO 

Ultrium Tape Drives

HP StorageWorks LTO Ultrium Tape Drives represent 
five-generations of LTO tape drive technology 
capable of storing up to 3 TB per cartridge, with 
HP TapeAssure for manageability, hardware data 
encryption and unprecedented performance.
With HP TapeAssure you can be confident that your 
data is safe by monitoring drive and media utilisation, 
operational performance and life/health information 
for drive and media. Data hardware encryption using 
AES 256-bit provides easy-to-enable security to protect 
the most sensitive data and prevent unauthorised 
access of tape cartridges. By using hardware 
encryption, data is fully capable of being compressed 
therefore maximising capacity; encrypted backups 
are completed without any loss in performance. 
Capable of data transfer rates up to 280 MB/sec, 
the HP exclusive data rate matching feature further 
optimises performance by matching host system 
speed to keep drives streaming, thus improving tape 
performance even with slow hosts. 

LTO Ultrium Tape Drives provide up to 3 TB of 
compressed capacity on a single cartridge.

Enables even the tightest backup window to be met 
with unprecedented performance.

HP TapeAssure offers you the ability to make the 
best use of your investment and be confident that 
your data is safe by monitoring drive and media 
utilisation, operational performance and life/health 
information for drive and media, allowing the switch 
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Provides highest level of security for strong backup 
data privacy to secure confidential information and 
address compliance quickly with fewer cartridges.

Allows the tape drive to dynamically and continuously 
adjust to the speed of the host, keeping drives 
streaming even with slow hosts or slow networks and 
maximising performance and reducing start/stops, 
which significantly increase reliability of HP drives 
and media.

HP offers a wider choice of models including internal, 
external and rackmount, a choice of interfaces SAS 
and SCSI and wider connectivity to server platform 
including vendors such as Dell, IBM and Sun. 
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Includes an extensive list of supported backup 
and archiving software applications from HP, CA, 
VERITAS, Legato, Tivoli and other applications. 
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Design leveraged from previous HP LTO tape drives 
to deliver confident backups at high duty cycles.

Provides HP LTO media, cleaning cartridge (with full 
height drives), a free copy of HP StorageWorks Data 
Protector Express Software Single Server Edition 
which includes support for hardware data encryption 
and OBDR, cables and documentation.

Restores your entire ProLiant system at the touch 
of a button without the need for system disks or 
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Helps make installation, management and 
troubleshooting simple. For more details,  
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For IT organisations with stringent, long-term data 
retention requirements, WORM data protection 
capability offers a simple and secure method for 
archiving records allowing you to affordably meet 
the toughest industry compliance regulations.

Designed for small and medium 

businesses (SMBs), the HP LTO Ultrium 

Tape Drives set new standards for 

capacity, performance, manageability 

and security.