Description
Performance and Reliability
The 596278-001 HP 1.5TB/3TB StorageWorks LTO-5 Ultrium 3000 SAS Internal Tape Drive is a high-performance and reliable storage solution designed for businesses that require long-term data storage and archiving capabilities.
Performance:
The LTO-5 Ultrium 3000 SAS tape drive offers impressive performance with a data transfer rate of up to 280 MB/s (compressed), making it an ideal choice for businesses that need to backup and archive large amounts of data quickly. It also features a large 1.5TB native capacity and a 3TB compressed capacity, allowing users to store a significant amount of data on a single cartridge.
Reliability:
The HP LTO-5 Ultrium 3000 SAS tape drive is a reliable storage solution that offers enhanced data security and protection. It features hardware-based data encryption, ensuring that data stored on the tape is protected from unauthorized access. The tape drive also features HP’s exclusive Data Rate Matching technology, which ensures that the tape drive and the host system are always operating at the same data transfer rate, reducing the risk of data loss or corruption.
In addition, the LTO-5 Ultrium 3000 SAS tape drive features HP’s TapeAlert technology, which provides real-time alerts and notifications to help users quickly identify and resolve issues before they can impact data integrity. The tape drive is also backward compatible with previous LTO tape generations, making it a versatile and cost-effective storage solution for businesses of all sizes.
Security Features and Encryption Capabilities
The 596278-001 HP 1.5TB/3TB Storageworks LTO-5 Ultrium 3000 SAS Internal Tape Drive is a high-capacity, high-speed data storage solution designed for enterprise-level backup and archiving needs. This tape drive offers several security features and encryption capabilities to help ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data. Some of these features include:
- AES-256 Encryption: This tape drive supports hardware-based AES-256 encryption, which provides strong protection for your data. This encryption method uses a 256-bit key to encrypt and decrypt data, making it extremely difficult for unauthorized users to access your data.
- Write-Once, Read-Many (WORM) Support: The tape drive also supports WORM functionality, which allows you to write data to the tape once and then prevent it from being modified or erased. This feature is useful for compliance and regulatory requirements where data retention is mandated.
- Secure Erase: The tape drive offers a secure erase feature that permanently deletes data from the tape, making it unrecoverable. This feature ensures that sensitive data cannot be accessed by unauthorized users, even if the tape falls into the wrong hands.
- Key Management: The tape drive supports key management, which allows you to manage and control access to the encryption keys used to protect your data. This feature ensures that only authorized users have access to the keys and can decrypt the data.
- Compression: The tape drive uses hardware-based compression to reduce the amount of data that needs to be written to the tape, which helps to increase the capacity of the tape and reduce backup and restore times.
- SAS Interface: The tape drive features a SAS interface, which provides a high-speed, reliable connection to your server or storage system. This interface supports data transfer rates of up to 6 Gb/s, making it ideal for enterprise-level backup and archiving applications.
Interface Options and Connectivity
The HP 1.5TB/3TB Storageworks LTO-5 Ultrium 3000 SAS Internal Tape Drive (part number 596278-001) is a high-capacity tape drive that is designed to provide reliable backup and archiving solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. It features a SAS interface and offers excellent connectivity options to ensure seamless integration with various server configurations.
Here are some of the interface options and connectivity features of the HP 1.5TB/3TB Storageworks LTO-5 Ultrium 3000 SAS Internal Tape Drive:
- SAS Interface: The tape drive features a SAS interface that provides fast and reliable connectivity to SAS-enabled servers and storage systems. SAS is a high-speed interface that supports data transfer rates of up to 6 Gbps, ensuring efficient data transfer and backup operations.
- SCSI Interface: The tape drive is also backward compatible with SCSI interfaces, providing connectivity options for legacy systems that do not support SAS interfaces.
- Internal Form Factor: The HP 1.5TB/3TB Storageworks LTO-5 Ultrium 3000 SAS Internal Tape Drive is designed to be installed internally in a server or storage system. This ensures efficient data transfer and backup operations by eliminating the need for external connections and reducing latency.
- Compatible Servers: The tape drive is compatible with a wide range of HP ProLiant and Integrity servers, including HP ProLiant DL/ML and BL servers, as well as HP Integrity rx series servers.
- Tape Compatibility: The HP 1.5TB/3TB Storageworks LTO-5 Ultrium 3000 SAS Internal Tape Drive is compatible with LTO-5 Ultrium tapes, which have a native capacity of 1.5TB and a compressed capacity of up to 3TB.
General Information:
- Tape Type : LTO 5
- Native Drive Capacity : 1.50TB
- Enclosure Type : Internal
Technical Features:
- Native Data Transfer Rate : 138.88 MBPS
- Compressed Data Transfer Rate : 277.76 MBPS
- Compressed Drive Capacity : 3TB
- Interface Type : SAS
- Form Factor : 5.25 X 1/2 H Internal