DLT Tape Drive

DLT tape drive users or potential users should reconsider. DLT technology is ending its usable lifespan. Even major OEMs and manufacturers are dropping the format.

Tandberg Data's VXA Packet Drives are the new standard for DLT tape drive users.

DLT tape drive costs have been low (generally under $1,000) and the tape cost has been low (about $10-$25 per tape cartridge). But DLT tape drive users have made steep concessions to enjoy low prices: capacity (20GB to 36GB) has not kept pace with market needs, speed has suffered (3MB/s, 10GB/h max.), and because of old fashioned track-based technology and head-to-tape alignment issues, media error rates have been high and restore dependability has been much lower than expected.

Advantages of VXA vs. DLT

With four times the capacity of DLT tape drive units, about twice the data transfer rate, and several orders of magnitude higher reliability, VXA Packet Tape drives and autoloaders from Tandberg Data offer DLT tape drive users a significant upgrade in capacity, performance, and dependability.

How is this possible? VXA Packet Technology is simply a better, more efficient way to store and retrieve data. VXA Packet Tape technology is nothing short of a revolution in data recording and retrieval. Prior to the introduction of VXA Packet Technology, the fundamental architecture and format of tape drives had not changed in more than twenty years.

To learn which format you should choose, view this short multimedia tour.