Datasheet

VXA
™
Advantages
HIGHLY DURABLE
Over three successive generations, VXA products have been disaster tested
by Tandberg Data and independent labs under the most severe conditions—
including violent vibration, immersion in volcanic dust, boiling water and hot
coffee, and even freezing cartridges in ice—to ensure reliable and complete
data restores.
BETTER SCALABILITY
VXA Packet drives and tapes offer scalable capacity—three media length
choices provide just the right capacity for today’s backup needs and the
flexibility to scale for future data growth.
GUARANTEED COMPATIBILITY
Compatible with all VXA drives: IBM, Fujitsu-Siemens, Apple, Acer.
VXA-320 Internal
VXA-2 Internal
VXA TAPE DRIVE SPECIFICATIONS
MODEL
VXA-2
VXA-320
Capacity - GB* 160 320
Transfer Rate - MB/s* 12 24
Interface LVD SCSI, Firewire LVD SCSI, Firewire, USB
Media Usage X23, X10, X6, V17 X23, X10, X6
VXA-2 External
VXA-320 External
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VXA
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Tape Drives
TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU CAN RELY ON
Tandberg Data VXA™ Tape Drives use an award-winning packet technology that enables
VXA drives to read and write data on tape using digital packets, just like the internet. VXA
technologyprovides far superior restore integrity, exceptional value for money and scalable
capacities up to 320*GB..
VXA drives deliver transfer speeds up to 24MB/s*, and its variable speed operation allows VXA
drives to work perfectly on slower networks. VXA drives perform a PerfectWrite™ and use 4
Reed-Solomon Error Correction. VXA products are up to 180x more likely to restore data than a
DDS/DAT tape drives and can even restore data from a damaged tape.
Tandberg VXA drives ship with Symantec’s Backup Exec QuickStart software and come with 3
years warranty and support, and one year advanced replacement service.
Tandberg Data’s VXAtape™ cartridges are the perfect complement to VXA technology. They
provide the necessary features needed for Tandberg VXA tape drives, autoloaders, and
libraries. Imation Corporation is the exclusive worldwide distributor of VXA tapes.
MEDIA COMPATIBILITY CHART
PRODUCT VXA-2 VXA-320
X23 (230m) Data Cartridge - GB 80 / 160 160 / 320
X10 (124m) Data Cartridge - GB 40 / 80 86 / 172
X6 (62m) Data Cartridge - GB 20 / 40 40 / 80
* Based on a 2:1 Data Compression Rate
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Stand Alone Tape Drives