HP DAT 160 SCSI External Tape Drive Q1574A#AC3 产品宣传页

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Q1574A#AC3

HP StorageWorks DAT160 tape drive white paper

Answers to your top ten technical questions

Executive summary............................................................................................................................... 2

Introduction......................................................................................................................................... 3

HP StorageWorks DAT160—Overview .................................................................................................. 4

Answers to your top ten technical questions ............................................................................................ 5

Q1. The DAT160 drive reaches new levels of capacity without compromising reliability.

How is that achieved? ...................................................................................................................... 5

Q2. How much further can DAT capacities grow? ............................................................................... 6

Q3. The DAT160 drive has a much high transfer rate. How was that achieved?...................................... 6

Q4. The backwards compatibility with the HP StorageWorks DAT72 and DAT40 tape drives is really
important to customers. Can you explain how this works?..................................................................... 8

Q5. What is actually the new technology in the DAT160 drive and what has been leveraged from

the DAT72 drive?........................................................................................................................... 11

Q6. What have been the key time investments in developing this new product? .................................... 12

Q7. What is the reliability specification of the DAT160 drive? ............................................................ 14

Q8. The DAT160 drive will have a SAS interface as well as USB and SCSI. Why is that required? ......... 16

Q9. Is the DAT160 drive suitable for an office environment?............................................................... 17

Q10. What is next on the DAT roadmap? ........................................................................................ 18

Summary .......................................................................................................................................... 18

Appendix A—DAT160 detailed specifications ...................................................................................... 19

Appendix B—DAT roadmap ............................................................................................................... 20

For more information.......................................................................................................................... 21