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- Overview
The HP StorageWorks DAT 72 Tape Drive is the fifth generation of HP's popular DDS tape drives, built on the success of four previous generations of DDS technology and providing unprecedented levels of capacity, reliability and cost of ownership. The DAT 72 delivers a capacity of 72 GB on a single data cartridge and a transfer rate of 21.6 GB/hr (assuming a 2:1 compression ratio). The StorageWorks DAT 72 tape drive is the perfect choice for small and medium businesses, remote offices, and workgroups.
- Drive Type: DAT 72
- Compressed Storage Capacity: 72 GB
- Native Storage Capacity: 36 GB
- Recording Method: Helical Scan
Technical Information
- Maximum Native Data Transfer Rate: 3 MBps
- Maximum Compressed Data Transfer Rate: 6 MBps
- Buffer: 8 MB
Drive Performance
- Formats Supported: DAT 72 (Read/Write)
- Formats Supported: DDS-4 (Read/Write)
- Formats Supported: DDS-3 (Read/Write)
Storage Media
- Drive Interface: SCSI
Interfaces/Ports
- Color: Carbon
- Form Factor: Internal
- Drive Width: 5.25"
- Drive Height: 1/2H
- Height: 1.6"
- Width: 5.7"
- Depth: 6.1"
- Weight (Approximate): 2.09 lb
Physical Characteristics
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Additional Information:
- Rewind Time: 120 s (end to end)
- Rewind Tape Speed: 1.41 m/s
- Data Compression: Lempel-Ziv (DCLZ)
- Error Detection/Correction: Reed-Solomon
- Data Encoding Method: Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (PRML)
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Compatibility:
- HP ProLiant DL Servers
- HP ProLiant ML Servers
- HP Alpha Servers
- HP 9000 Servers
- HP Integrity Servers
- HP Workstations
- HP-UX Servers
OS Support:
- Microsoft Windows
- Novell NetWare
- HP-UX
- Linux Kernel
- Red Hat Linux 64-bit
- IBM-AIX
- Sun Solaris
- Intel Solaris
- SGI IRIX
Backup Support:
- HP OpenView Storage Data Protector
- VERITAS Backup Exec
- BrightStor ARC Server
- Yosemite Technologies TapeWare
- Legato Networker
- Dantz Retrospect
- Tivoli TSM
- NovaBackup
