HP StorageWorks LTO-4 Tape Drive represents HP's fourth-generation of LTO tape drive technology positioned as HP's first tape drive capable of storing up to 1.6TB per cartridge while providing hardware-based encryption to enable greater levels of security and unprecedented performance.

Data hardware encryption using AES 256-bit provides easy-to-enable security to protect the most sensitive data and prevent unauthorized access of tape cartridges. By using LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 encryption, not only is data fully capable of being compressed therefore maximizing capacity, encrypted backups are completed without a loss in performance.

Capable of data transfer rates up to 240MB/sec, HP’s exclusive Data Rate Matching feature further optimizes performance by matching host system speed to keep drives streaming and enabling the fastest tape performance in the industry.

The Ultrium 4 provides investment protection with full read and write support with LTO-3 media, and the ability to read LTO-2 cartridge. By doubling the capacity of previous generation Ultrium drives, HP customers now require fewer data cartridges to meet their storage needs, significantly reducing IT costs and increasing ROI.

Support for Write-Once, Read-Many (WORM) media allows customers to implement a cost-effective solution to secure, manage, and archive data to meet stringent compliance regulations.

The LTO-4 Ultrium Tape Drive supports the industry’s most comprehensive list of compatible hardware and software platforms. Each drive option includes HP StorageWorks Data Protector Express Software Single Server Edition backup/recovery software and the HP StorageWorks Data Protector Express Software Bare Metal Disaster Recovery option, as well as support for HP One-Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR) and HP StorageWorks Library and Tape Tools (L&TT).

• Up to 1.6TB capacity per cartridge: The LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 Full Height Tape Drive provides up to 1.6TB of compressed capacity on a single cartridge.
• Up to 1.6TB capacity per cartridge: The LTO-4 Ultrium 1760 Half Height Tape Drive provides up to 1.6TB of compressed capacity on a single cartridge.
  
   
• Hardware data encryption of tape device enables full performance and compressibility of data: Provides highest level of security with compression for strong backup data privacy to secure confidential information and address compliance quickly and with fewer cartridges.
  Up to 240MB/s data transfer rate: Enables even the tightest backup window to be met with unprecedented performance.
   
• Data rate matching (DRM): Allows the tape drive to dynamically and continuously adjust the speed of the drive, from 40MB/s to 120MB/s (native), to keep drives streaming and maximize performance and reduce start/stops to significantly increase reliability of HP drives and media.
   
• Server compatibility: Qualified on HP and non-HP: including popular platforms from vendors such as Dell, IBM, and Sun.
   
• Software compatibility: Extensive list of supported backup and archiving software applications from HP, CA, VERITAS, Legato, Tivoli, and many more.
   
• Support for WORM media: Allows for unalterable backups using Write-Once Read-Many (WORM) media to meet compliance regulations such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC 17A-4.
   
• Enterprise-class reliability: Design leveraged from previous HP LTO tape drives to deliver confident backups at high duty cycles.
   
• Backup software included: Ships with single server edition of HP Data Protector Express Software which includes support for hardware data encryption support.
   
• One-Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR) Supported: Allows users to quickly restore an entire system using a single tape cartridge significantly reducing the cost and recovery time often resulting from a disaster - to keep any business up and running.

LTO 4 Full Height Drives

LTO 4 Half Height Drives