21st century organizations have to handle tough challenges due to the exponential in data amounts, E-business applications and network servers. Furthermore the organizations have to preserve their organizational data for longer periods to comply with the rigid data legislations.

DDS (digital data storage), an industry leading tape media format, is the answer to your ever-changing data protection needs. This breakthrough tape media format was co-developed by the Sony, a global leader in backup media industry.

Exceptional media reliability and lower ownership cost enables the I.T managers to satisfy the regulatory compliance, demanding archival and backup demands of small businesses, desktop workstations, mid-range computing systems and departmental servers.

Sony SDT-11000 is a fourth generation DDS tape drive developed to meet the backup demands of today’s small & mid-range businesses at an affordable price.

Complete range of DDS4 tape products are offered by Sony. SDT-11000 tape drive can squeeze 20 GB native information onto a small sized Sony DDS4 tape. Part number of this compact DDS-4 cartridge is dgd150p.

Sony DDS-4 tape solution’s compelling features of greater media capacity, fast speed and compact size make it streamer ideal for value-conscious customers and data rich I.T environments. Sony SDT-11000 tape drive reads and writes the data at a native speed of 2.4 MB/sec. Migration to the DDS-4 tape generation is very cost-effective as your previously stored data on DDS tapes is accessible. SDT-11000 drive can perform both read and write operations on previous three versions inducing DDS-3, DDS-2 and DDS-1.

Repeated tape loading and unloading can affect the overall storage performance. That’s not true for Sony DDS-4 tape solution. Sony has incorporated a cutting-edge HCL (high cross linkage) binder system in its DDS 4 tapes that helps to increase the tape robustness and durability. So you can confidently use the Sony DDS-4 tape cartridges for long term storage and high speed backups.

Overall cartridge strength has been further enhanced with use of strong plastic material. The aim is to protect the Sony the cartridges against the harmful effects of mechanical shocks, bumps and rough handling.

In compressed mode, the SDT-11000 drive can backup 17.28 GB data in an hour. Data through rate of SDT-11000 drive is twice as that of DDS-3 tape drives.

Sony SDT-11000 drive’s larger 10 MB data buffer helps to ensure consistent data flow and quick data compression with rock solid reliability. MTBF rating of SDT-11000 drive has been dramatically improved with the introduction of extremely durable “hyper metal laminate head” technology. As a result, the MTBF rating reaches up to 250,000 hours.

For SMB industry, you can also trust SDLT tape, vxa-2 tape, hp rdx cartridge, AIT tape, slr-140 tape, dlt-iv tape, Travan tape and slr100 tape media technologies. Sony DDS-4 tape products are built tough to support the relentlessly growing backup needs, demanding data centers and tough business requirements at a superior value. Product and software names mentioned throughout this article are trademarks and are sole property of their owners.

Frank Miller is the Marketing Manager of Backuptape and markets DDS4 and dgd150p. He has vast experience in the marketing and trading industries and has been helping buyers who have the backup needs and guide clients about the technology.

Frank Miller
3984 Washington Blvd #503 Fremont CA 94538
Tel: 888-686-8273
Fax: 888-449-5050
Email: sales@backuptapes.net