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family and pushes all of the smart options that users have come to expect # reliability value and space efficiency. The DLT VS160 fills the need for enterprise-class
DDS/DAT portfolio for small and mediumbusinesses requiring backward compatibility to previous DDS/DATtape drives. Quantum's DAT 160 delivers a capacity of 160 GB on a
family and pushes all of the smart options that users have come to expect # reliability value and space efficiency. The DLT VS160 fills the need for enterprise-class
DDS/DAT portfolio for small and mediumbusinesses requiring backward compatibility to previous DDS/DATtape drives. Quantum's DAT 160 delivers a capacity of 160 GB on a
DDS/DAT portfolio for small and mediumbusinesses requiring backward compatibility to previous DDS/DATtape drives. Quantum's DAT 160 delivers a capacity of 160 GB on a
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Supported Tape Cartridges (Read and Write): DDS-4, DAT-72, DAT-160
Recording Standard: DDS-4, DAT 72, DAT 160
Data Transfer Rate (native): 6.9 MBps ( 25 GBph )
Data Transfer Rate (compressed): 13.8 MBps ( 50 GBph )
Average Seek / Access Time: 50 sec
Power
Type: Power supply
Voltage Required: AC 120/230 V
Power Consumption Operational: 24 Watt
Environmental parameters
Min Operating Temperature: 5 °C
Max Operating Temperature: 40 °C
Humidity Range Operating: 20 - 80%
Manufacturer's product description
The Quantum DAT 160 tape drive provides the highest capacity and performance in the DDS/DAT portfolio for small and medium businesses requiring backward compatibility to previous DDS/DAT tape drives. Quantum's DAT 160 delivers a capacity of 160 GB on a single data cartridge and a transfer rate of up to 50 GB/hr (assuming a 2:1compression ratio). At the same time this sixth generation DDS/DAT drive provides the proven reliability and two-generation backward compatibility that users of the world's most successful tape technology have come to expect. Quantum "Backup Ready" certified solutions allow you to go from box-to-backup in minutes with the highly reliable Quantum DAT 160 tape drive, world-class Backup Exec QuickStart software and durable Quantum media. "Backup Ready" solutions are cost-effective, easy to install and fully-supported by Quantum.
Advantages: Fast, reliable, Good Price Disadvantages: No SCSI cable included, Not Great instructions
...I bought this for our office server which before-hand was running a DDS5 tapedrive. I have to say the DDS5 backup system we had was excellent and never caused me any problems.
We got to a point where we needed two tapes to do a backup, and considering we keep backups for up to a month, thats a hell of a lot more tapes we would have to buy.
After a lot of research and learning about DLT and SDLT, we discovered the V160. DLT allows backups to 40GB (80GB Compressed) and SDLT is alot more (i forget the figures). DLT would not have been enough and SDLT is a hell of a lot more expensive.
Quantums V160 is right in the middle of the two and each tape can store up to 160GB data if compressed. We managed to get the drive for around £700 and then bought a number of tapes. It was delivered direct from Quantum within a week.
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Advantages: Fast and Silent, Easy SATA installation, Two flavours to choose from Disadvantages: Dismal performance
...Maxtor are one of the 3 leading hard drive manufacturers in the personal and business computing market at the moment along with Western Digital and Hitachi. They are also the cheapest. Unfortunately, the saying that price doesn't equals quality is true here. Too true.
The 160GB version of the DiamondMax Plus9 can be purchased online from around £51.00 onwards. And with the way hard drive prices have fallen recently, that's not bad at all. But as I said, you're getting cheap quality to match the cheap price.
The drive itself looks very similar to any other hard drive, and comes in both IDE ATA/133 and SATA 150 flavours, with the SATA ones easier to configure due to their jumperless installations.
My personal experience with this drive has been short. I first purchased this drive to use in my first ever custom-built computer...
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Advantages: Huge capacity, reasonably fast, 5 year warranty Disadvantages: Not the fastest
...My laptop, a Dell 5150 is a fine machine (see review elsewhere on Ciao) but the 80Gb hard drive whilst big for a laptop is starting to get a bit cramped now I have both Windows XP and Vista on it so I've started looking around for a second hard drive so I can put Vista on one and leave XP on the other and then swap drives as needed. Luckily, following a previous hard drive failure, I have a spare caddy that the laptop needs so swapping drives would be a quick task, assuming I keep the tiny screwdriver needed handy in my rucksack!
Laptop hard drives are smaller than normal - 2.5inch as opposed to 3.5 inch and tend to be at a price premium compared to the 'normal' sized drives, especially the bigger ones. They also tend to be much slower as they run at 4200RPM instead of 5600 or even 7200RPM that desktop ones run at. The reason being...
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I am glad to see such a reliable brand name as Western Digital finally producing a USB Powered external hard drive - Thats right these drives require no power adapter they are powered directly through the USB cable (imagine them as very large USB memory... more
I purchased this "Toughdrive" to store my ever-growing digital music collection. It would work sporadically, often turning itself off. I emailed Freecom, who informed me it was a power related issue (they send you a free power adapter if you live in... more
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