HP SureStore DAT

Installation Guide

On Completion

Once you have completed the installation:

•Make sure you have the correct media.

•Power on and check that your new drive is operational.

•Insert the HP SureStore Tape CD-ROM. It contains everything you will need to use your tape drive—drivers, backup software, utilities and user information.

•Register your tape drive to ensure that you benefit from the full 3-year warranty period.

Use Correct Media

For optimum performance and storage capacity, use tape cartridges that match your drive's format, and normally use only one cartridge per day.

•HP SureStore DAT40 drives work best with DDS-4 cartridges.

•HP SureStore DAT24 drives work best with DDS-3 cartridges.

•HP SureStore DAT8 drives work best with DDS-2 cartridges.

•HP SureStore Tape 5000 drives use only DDS-1 cartridges (60-meter or 90-meter).

However, most HP SureStore DAT drives are fully backward compatible (apart from the HP SureStore DAT40). The compatibility between drive models and cartridges is summarized in the following table. Shaded boxes show the recommended media for each tape drive.

 

DDS-1

DDS-1

DDS-2

DDS-3

DDS-4

 

60 meter

90 meter

120 meter

125 meter

150 meter

 

 

 

 

 

 

HP SureStore Tape 5000

2.6 GB*

4 GB*

 

 

 

HP SureStore DAT8

read/write

read/write

8 GB*

 

 

HP SureStore DAT24

read/write

read/write

read/write

24 GB*

 

HP SureStore DAT40

 

read only

read/write

read/write

40 GB*

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Capacity assumes 2:1 compression.

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