The PV110T LTO3 External tape drive is a high-performance high-capacity single tape drive, ideal for backing up your PowerEdge servers or PowerVault storage servers. The capacity of the LTO3 drive is 400GB (native) at a backup rate of 80MBps. Includes cleaning media.

Tape backup and archiving offer various strategies (Full, Incremental, Differential) and rotation schemes (Tower of Hanoi, Round-Robin, Grandfather, Father, Son). At a minimum, Dell recommends a 3 tape media rotation to help protect your data from catastrophic loss (one in-use at the office , one archived on-site, and a third archived off-site). WORM (Write Once, Read Many) media technology is widely used to meet growing business and regulatory requirements, preserving data written to a tape cartridge so that it cannot be rewritten, erased or altered in any way.

Dell partners with backup software leaders CommVault, Symantec and Yosemite to provide comprehensive data protection solutions- fully tested and qualified with Dell server and storage systems. Select your software based on the capabilities and features needed to support the specific applications and file/operating systems within your current or planned infrastructure.