DDS/DAT

With an installed based of more than 6 million drives DDS/DAT is by far the world’s most popular tape storage format. HP is committed to developing the technology through to at least 2010.

That’s great news if you depend on this format for simple, affordable and reliable tape backup and data protection. It means, that as a DAT user, you can easily manage the growing demand for data storage in spite of shrinking backup windows, without having to find room for extra hardware or switch to a more expensive format.

The latest generation of this brilliantly simple and successful format is delivered by the new HP StorageWorks DAT160 tape storage solution, providing a 12MB/sec transfer rate and up to 160GB capacity on a single cartridge.

Click here to find view HP's Short Guide to Successful Backup.