The 20/40-GB DAT DDS-4 tape drive is a high performance, low-cost tape backup solution for the corporate server market. The DDS-4 tape drive is the next generation from a long line of DAT products. This drive offers 20GB native capacity with a transfer rate of 2.4MB/s and will utilize hardware data compression which can double these characteristics to 40GB and 4.8 MB/s.

The DAT 20/40GB drive uses a helical-scan recording technique, which has been specifically designed to suit the special requirements of digital data storage devices. This drive also incorporates the ability and opportunity to rewrite the data repeatedly until the data has been read successfully just incase there is an error during the write process.

Key Benefits

• High capacity, more reliability and faster data transfer rates are needed by customers ranging from the high-end workstation environment to the mid-range departmental server market.
• Ability to backup more data in less time and at a lower cost per Megabyte compared to the 12/24GB DAT.
• Offers investment protection for DDS-2 and DDS-3 customers who have standardized on the DDS technology by offering higher capacity, performance, reliability and back-wards read/write capabilities.