We have a refurbished (but hardly used) Quantum Superloader LTO3. It is a Rackmount device and available today for £1295.00 from stock. This is a saving over around £700.00 compared to the retail price. We will offer this Autoloader with a 90 day return to base warranty but we are able to extend this or offer onsite support at extra cost.

Further details of this Autoloader are available here : http://www.quantum.com/Products/Autoloaders/SuperLoader3/Index.aspx

We now have available from stock the PX502 LTO Ready Autoloader from Quantum.

Our PX502 has 2 x LTO3 LVD Drives and is available from stock for £2495.00 + Carriage + VAT. This is an excellent price and it is supplied with a 90 day return to base warranty but support options are available if required.

The Dell Powervault 122T Range of Desktop and Rackmount Autoloaders offer an excellent cost effective back up solution for the small to medium sized office.

They are available with VS80, LTO1, LTO2 and SDLT320 drives and are able to take a total of 8 cartridges. They are 2U in height and come with a 68pin Ultra Wide SCSI connection.

We have the full range available from stock so please contact sales for further information

Whatever data storage solution you are currently using chances are we stock the parts for it or indeed stock the unit itself. From Quantum tape drives to the very latest offerings from Seagate and Dell we are a leading authority on all tape drive technologies.

Currently, we are offering  a Seagate DDS4 Internal DAT drive for an amazing £85.00. Other best sellers from us are the Tandberg LTO2 1U 8 slot autoloader. Why not look at the HP internal SDLT Tape Drive as with all our products it offers great value for money and a reliant form of data backup.

Most of the tape drives that we supply have advanced feature sets and high performance offerings. Low power consuming units are ever more popular as is highly reliable data storage and flexible cartridge load design. Many of our auto loader units facilitate disaster recovery plans and offer off-site storage solutions to both small and large companies.

We have just received some Ultrium LTO2 Loader Drives for the Overland Storage  NEO2000 & NEO4000 range of Autoloaders.

 These drives are refurbished and come complete with a hotswap tray so they are ready to be used and easy to install. Whether you want to upgrade from LTO1 or add a second LTO2 drive they represent excellent value for money. The interface is LVD and they can offer upto 108GB/hr.

We can also provide the complete loaders, installation and maintenance for these devices, please contact sales for more information.

Castle Computers have been selling HP Autoloaders for a number of years now. One of the most popular ranges are the 1/8 value loaders.

 Holding a total of 8 tapes (or 7 tapes and 1 cleaning tape) these compact autoloaders can use ether LTO1 (C9572CB), LTO2 (AA927A), LTO3 (AF204A) or LTO448 (AF203A) drives. They can be mounted in a rack or used and a desktop device. All of them have an LVD Ultrawide 68pin interface and they are also available with an optional barcode reader.

Being 2U in height means that they are an excellent backup solution for small to medium sized offices and offer a fast and reliable transfer of data. Please call our sales department for further information

What is a tape drive?  We often get asked that question. Very simply put a tape drive is a storage device for data and is sometimes called a streamer. The data itself is stored on magnetic tape which the device can write and read to.

Tape drives are different from random-access data devices as access is only sequential.  There are many ways in which tape drive backup devices can be attached to a computer  the most common of which is SCSI. Nowadays people also use USB or fibre channel. The reason tape drives are so popular is the amount of data storage they can handle which ranges from just a few megabytes to in excess of 900 GB.

The other great feature of tape drives is the level of security they offer and the fact the media is portable and can easily be stored in a secure backup location. Compression ratios achievable on drives today also means that the data can be stored more efficiently.  Raw storage capacity of tape drives is called native capacity.

For fully automated backup solutions tape libraries and autoloaders are used with the tape drives inside them which means that multiple tapes can be accessed through archived solutions and capacity can be increased. Most tape drives now have variable speed levels with implemented algorithms which can match the computer data rate dynamically when backing up data.

One of best selling range of autoloaders and small libraries is the HP MSL range. At the moment we stock the 26, 30, 52 and 60 slot versions. These libraries are available with the following drives.

• 40/80GB DLT
• 110/220GB SDLT
• 160/320GB SDLT
• SDLT600
• LTO1
• LTO2
• LTO3

The 5 U Loaders are able to take 1 or 2 drives but the 10U ones will take upto 4. They are also available with optional fibre channel cards.

We find that these devices offer an excellent back up solution and they prove to be incredibly fast, efficient and reliable. All our MSL Autoloaders are fully refurbished and come with rail kits and cables. They are tested extensively using HP software.

Castle Computers can also offer on-site installations and maintenance for these products so please contact sales for further details or pricing.

Here at Castle Computers we believe that Dell is one of the most trusted and reliable names in storage. The Dell Powervault 132T is no exception and we are pleased to offer these cost effective tape autoloaders from stock.

The PV132T uses two LVD SDLT 160-320GB Tape Drives and is able to take a maximum of 24 Tapes. This offers up-to a massive 3.3TB with a transfer rate of 16mb/Sec. They can be mounted in a standard rack and come complete with rails, cables and a terminator so they can be installed with a minimum of fuss.

We are also able to offer on-site installation and maintenance for these tape autoloaders, please ask our sales team for advise or further information.

Castle Computers have just received a new product into stock.

The Tandberg LTO2 8 Slot 1U Autoloader

This Autoloader is a break through in technology offering a cost effective and space efficient back up solution. The rackmountable Autoloader is only 1U high using the minimum amount of space in the rack.

Using 8 LTO2 tapes it offers  1600-3200GB of back up capacity.  Its transfer rates are excellent with a 24GB/sec native speed.