Manufacturer’s Description

This product is 100% ROHS compliant (meets 2006 European legislation for removal of hazardous substances).The HP StorageWorks family of DAT drives is the first choice for data protection for many small and medium businesses with low-end and mid-range servers and workstations. HP StorageWorks DAT drives are also frequently used for operating system backup and software loading on mission-critical servers in many large enterprises. The HP StorageWorks DAT 72 USB tape drive provides an optimum balance of dependable backup capacity and low cost of ownership for small and medium businesses, remote offices, and workgroups. The DAT 72 delivers a capacity of 72 GB on a single data cartridge and a transfer rate of 23 GB/hr (assuming a 2:1 compression ratio).

The Specs

General
System Type PC
Tape Format Tape - 4mm DAT/DDS
Internal/External External
Interface Type USB
URL http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11883_na/11883_na.html
Warranty Information 3 Year Limited Warranty
Additional Specifications
Frequency Band Burst Transfer Rate: 6 MB/s (asynchronous), 40 MB/s (synchronous) Rewind Time: 120 s (end to end) Rewind Tape Speed: 1.41 m/s Data Compression: Lempel-Ziv (DCLZ) Error Detection/Correction: Reed-Solomon Data Encoding Method: Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (PRML)
Product Line StorageWorks
Power Consumption 7.10 W Average
Temperature -40F (-40C) to 158F (70C) Storage
Data Error Rate 1 / 10^-17 bits Read Uncorrected
Humidity 5 to 95% Relative Humidity Storage
Media Change Time 15 Second Unload Average
Front Camera HP
Brand Name HP
Recording Method Helical Scan
Access Time 1.13 Minute Data
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