HPStorage

Why HP Storage Media?

Versitale - You can use it with HP Equipment or other brands

Reliability - Proven Techhnology, vendor repuation and warranty

• HP is the preferred brand among end users*

Cost - Tape media offers the lowest cost/gigabyte of any storage medium on the market today

Tape Life - Refers to the number of passes over the read-write head, but we also need to consider tape archiving

• Ultrium media certified for 1 million passes or 260 full back-ups
• Archiving = 30 years on Ultrium

HP Users Buy Less Tapes

• Higher capacities on single tapes
• Lower error rates
• costs 50% less per full capacity backup!

Other Leading Brand (OLB) Users buy more tapes

• Reduced cartridge capacity
• Increased risk of data loss
• Purchase 2x the number of tapes to back up 60TB of data

Leader in Quality

• Designs cartridges and tape to higher standards than competition
• Audits/test more tapes than competition (7 times more)
• More Audit testing machines than the competition
• Rejected tapes are resold to other brands
• Have some of the lowest error rates in the industry
• Low error rates reduce overall costs

*Source: The Yankee Group