Dell PowerVault LTO-3-080 Tape Drive
High Performance and High Capacity

Overview:

Back up or archive your data — quickly and safely — with the Dell PowerVault™ LTO-3-080, a compact tape drive that delivers high-capacity, high-performance backup plus long-term data archiving using write once, ready many (WORM) storage media. 

• Interchanging media cartridges with tape libraries
• Half-height chassis
• 288GB/hr (native) back-up rate

Highlights:

• Single external Linear Tape-Open Ultrium 3 (LTO-3) half-height tape drive, internal model available within server configurations
• High-capacity, high-performance backup to a maximum of 400 GB (native) of data at up to 288 GB/hr (native)
• Backward read and write compatible with Linear Tape-Open Ultrium 2 (LTO-2) media and read compatible with LTO-1 media
• Available with LTO-3 write once, read many (WORM) media to protect your data from being altered

Key Benefits:

High-performance, reliable, cost-effective data protection

Businesses and public organizations create mountains of data each day — information that is compiled, analyzed, moved, shared, stored, and which may have to be archived to comply with organizational, industry, and government regulations. As your organization increasingly relies on data-rich applications to generate revenue and achieve operational efficiency, protecting your data is vital; in fact, it may be the single most important thing you can do to ensure the ongoing success of your business. Tape backup has traditionally been one of the most cost-effective ways of keeping data safe and available.

LTO tape technology: The value of standards

Linear Tape Open™, or LTO, technology was developed by an industry consortium to provide the reliability, scalability, and performance that today's IT environments demand of tape-storage solutions. A single LTO tape can now house up to 1.5TB of data, and transfer data at up to 140MB/sec, making LTO ideal for the high capacity and streaming backup requirements of today's enterprises. The LTO standard features help protect your technology investment with a clear growth path, from the original LTO-1, to the new LTO-5, and with a roadmap to future development of LTO-6. LTO tape's open standard enables tape and drive compatibility among vendors, and has spawned competition that leads to quality products, innovation, and widespread availability at the best prices. Openness means the customer wins.

The Dell PowerVault LTO family

Dell PowerVault™ LTO tape drives help provide business continuity and disaster recovery for organizations of all sizes using Dell PowerEdge servers or PowerVault NAS servers. The Dell PowerVault LTO tape drive family offers a range of products that balance affordability and performance.

• The PowerVault LTO-3-080 Full Height tape drive is based on 3rd generation LTO technology (LTO-3) and features robust performance and capacity for applications like digital video, archiving, data mining and supply-chain management.

LTO half height drives have historically been designed to run at a slightly lower transfer rate, resulting in less energy consumption and operating expenses over time, compared to the full height versions.

The value of security

LTO-3, LTO-4 and LTO5 also offer the user added data protection and security features. For customers with data-compliance requirements, LTO-3, LTO-4 and LTO5 offer write-once-read-many (WORM) technology. Data that is written to an LTO WORM cartridge in WORM format cannot be re-written or altered. Organizations that choose LTO-3, LTO-4 or LTO5 tape for backups will also benefit from being able to use their cost-effective tape solution to meet government and industry requirements for unalterable archives of data. The Dell PowerVault LTO-4-120 and LTO-5-140 tape drives utilize a secret 256-bit key for data encryption, which is performed in the tape device after host data is received and compressed, at full line speed — resulting in no impact on throughput performance and no host-processor MIPS overhead. Device level encryption removes the need for costly and complex encryption software.

Dell services

Dell Global Services provides end-to-end service and support solutions to help you take advantage of your new PowerVault LTO Tape Drive. You can count on award-winning support services to rapidly respond to your needs, and help you reduce the risk and complexity in your IT environment.

Technical Specifications:

Feature	LTO-3-060	LTO-3-080	LTO-5
Product Name	PowerVault LTO-3-060	PowerVault LTO-3-080 FH	PowerVault LTO5-140
Ideal for	Less expensive version of the LTO-3 Full Height drive with the same native data capacity but slightly lower performance.	Provides robust performance and capacity for applications like digital video, archiving, data mining and supplychain management.	The same enhanced security features as LTO4-120 along with 1.5TB capacity is ideal for any IT organization that requires this level of security or the capacity to ensure a single or multiple cartridge backup.
Capacity (Native)	Up to 400GB	Up to 400GB	Up to 1.5 TB
Transfer rate (Native)	Up to 60MB/sec	Up to 80MB/sec	Up to 140MB/sec
Optimized Media	LTO-3, LTO-3 WORM	LTO-3, LTO-3 WORM	LTO-5, LTO-5 WORM
Media Compatibility	Reads/Writes LTO-2, LTO-3, LTO-3, WORM tapes, Reads LTO-1 tapes	Reads/Writes LTO-2, LTO-3, LTO-3, WORM tapes, Reads LTO-1 tapes	Reads/Writes LTO-5, LTO-5 WORM, LTO-4 and LTO-4 WORM tapes, Reads LTO-3 tapes
Open Format	Yes	Yes	Yes
MTBF	250,000 hours	250,000 hours	250,000 hours
Duty cycle	100%	100%	100%
Buffer size	128MB	128MB	256MB
Recording Interface	Ultra160 SCSI LVD	Ultra160 SCSI LVD	6Gb Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Maintenance	Head cleaning cartridge used when indicated by drive, integrated sweep cleaning brush	Head cleaning cartridge used when indicated by drive, integrated sweep cleaning brush	Head cleaning cartridge used when indicated by drive, integrated sweep cleaning brush
Dimensions (H x W x D)	Int HH: 1.7" x 5.83" x 8.29" Ext: 2.6" x 8.04" x 10.1"	Int FH: 3.33" x 5.83" x 8.33" Ext: 4.9" x 9.8" x 11.4"	Int: 1.69" x 5.83" x 8.29" Ext: 2.56" x 8.74" x 12.87"
Weight	Int HH: 3.3 lbs Ext: 6.6 lbs	Int FH: 6.6 lbs Ext: 14.1 lbs	Int: 3.9 lbs Ext: 9.7 lbs
Alttitude (operational)	10,000 feet maximum	10,000 feet maximum	10,000 feet maximum
Temperature (operational)	10° C to 35° C	10° C to 35° C	10° C to 38° C
Humidity	80%	80%	80%
Power supply	23.5W (Operational)	28W (Operational), 10W in idle	24W (Operational), 6.5W in idle

Services:

Hardware Support Service Plans

Dell Infrastructure Services: Execution without excuses:
Dell brings pure execution to IT Services. The planning, implementation and maintenance of your IT infrastructure deserves nothing less. Variability in execution can compromise user productivity, IT resources, and ultimately, your reputation. By leveraging our heritage of process driven excellence, Dell Services can deliver a smarter way. That's Pure Dell.

Gold Enterprise Support:
Provides 7x24 rapid response and resolution of critical issues including escalation management and On-Site* Emergency Dispatch procedures to quickly restore operations. This level of support is appropriate for servers that are being used for email systems, database applications and virtualization.

Silver Enterprise Support:
Silver support provides convenient 7x24 phone access for hardware and core software troubleshooting with 4-hour2 7x24 on-site* services following completion of phone-based troubleshooting. This level of support is appropriate for file and print servers and other non-production testing and development.

Take Your Support to the Next Level

Platinum Plus Enterprise Support
Dell's most comprehensive level of premium support for storage systems combines rapid response and resolution for critical issues with customized account planning and reporting to proactively help improve uptime. With Platinum Plus, you receive direct access to the Enterprise Command Center and a designated Platinum Technical Account Manager and can enjoy the benefits of these two new innovative features:

• Operations Performance Benchmarking Innovative management tools and processes, providing customers with unprecedented visibility into their IT operations and a mechanism for continuous improvement.
• ECC Real-time Tracking Window A real-time web based tool that allows customers to track the real-time position and status of every open incident they are experiencing around the world, without picking up the phone.

Additional Service Offerings

In today's environment, businesses depend on their advanced server and storage systems running like clockwork. Maximum uptime is crucial. IT professionals' success and credibility depends on knowing they can reliably deliver business-critical operations and rapidly resolve problems when they do arise. They also need the flexibility to match support to the different needs of various end users and applications environments, smartly balancing quality and costs.

Backup and Recovery
Dell offers comprehensive project management to help you optimize your technology, improve efficiencies, and minimize downtime with a tailored Archiving, backup, recovery solution engineered to provide increased flexibility, scalability, and manageability.

Storage and Server Consolidation
Consolidation services provide a common platform to allocate and manage growing demands for data storage and helps reduce administrative effort by establishing a single management console. Dell's comprehensive approach to storage and server consolidation helps you accelerate productivity by delivering customized systems, software and services that ease management and can result in lower total cost of ownership. Consolidation can offer these key benefits:

• Simplify Operations
• Improve Utilization
• Cost Effective Scaling

Comprehensive Storage Training and Certification
Arm your employees with the knowledge and skills they need to be as productive as possible. Dell offers comprehensive training services which include hardware and software training, as well as PC skills and professional development classes. Dell training can help improve system reliability, maximize productivity, and reduce end user requests and downtime.

On-Site Installation and Remote Installation Services

Remote Configuration Set-up

• Assistance configuring or setting up your new server's operating system for the first time
• Flexibility with Dell remotely "driving" the install via online Web-Ex session or allowing you to perform via phone-based instruction
• Most cost-effective solution to quickly getting your server OS up and running

On-Site Installation: Hardware and OS

• An On-Site* Dell technician to ensure proper physical setup & functionality of the hardware and Windows operating system in your business environment
• Assistance installing your new server into a Dell-support rack
• Reduced time required to get your new server completely up and running

Documentation:

Dell PowerVault LTO Tape Drives Datasheet (.PDF)