Tape drives have often been known to hinder speed in data backup throughput. Performance variability caused the tape drive to fall out of data streaming mode several times during a backup session. To solve this problem of inconsistent performance, tape drive vendors devised various ways to maintain throughput under slow or varying host data transfer conditions.

Last year, Quantum launched the market's highest capacity tape drive, the DLT-S4, with a record-breaking 800GB native capacity and 1.6TB compressed capacity. This high capacity drive is the first drive optimized for tiered storage and was created with a pure digital buffering solution for you to achieve high performance speed and reliability.

Including proven test results, download this white paper to find out how Quantum improved performance, while also ensuring the drive and media reliability meets or exceeds specifications.