Technical Details for Tandberg VXA-172

Tandberg VXA-172 ... level of data protection value. The VXA-172 drive with up to 172 GB of capacity is the first and only tape product with 'on-demand capacity' that provides customers the flexibility to scale capacity to 320 GB when their storage needs grow.

The VXA-172 drive not only provides more than twice the capacity of DDS/DAT, but also offers four times the transfer speed of the aging format - all at a lower price. No other tape format on the market can compete with the combination of reliability, capacity, speed and price offered by the VXA-172 drive. Over three successive generations, VXA products have been disaster tested and independent labs under the most severe conditions - including violent vibration, immersion in volcanic dust, boiling water and hot coffee, and even freezing cartridges on ice - to assure reliable and complete data restore.