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
