Advanced Backup to Disk Performance White Paper

Tape Drives
This white paper covers the Ultrium 960, Ultrium 460 and SDLT 320 tape drives.
The HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 tape drive performance is best utilized for high-performance
backup in a disk and tape SAN environment, backing up directly from a high-performance disk
subsystem (from primary disk storage, split mirrors, snapshots, or clones). The HP StorageWorks
Ultrium 960 is not ideal (performance wise) for network backups (e.g. 100BASE-T) or backup from
lower performance disk arrays. HP recommends matching appropriate LTO technology generations to
your server capabilities. However, if you have capacity needs met by a higher generation product,
you can utilize it in the knowledge that it will give you performance headroom in future.
Figure 1. HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 Tape Drive
The HP StorageWorks Ultrium 460 tape drive fits very well in most of all server environments by
delivering a considerable capacity and performance.
Figure 2. HP StorageWorks Ultrium 460 Tape Drive
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