We have just taken delivery of some Quantum External SDLT600. They are brand new and boxed with a part number of TR-S34BX-EO. They are retailing for anywhere between £1200 - £1500each but we are selling them for £895 + Carriage + VAT.

Further details and specifications can be found here.

 http://www.quantum.com/Products/TapeDrives/DLT/SDLT600/Index.aspx

4mm DAT (digital audio tape) drives have been around for a number of years now and range from 1.3GB (some of the first devices) - 160GB with the current drives available on the market. Here at Castle Computers we stock a wide range of drives from manufacturers including. Archive, Seagate, Certance, Conner, Quantum, HP, Sony, WangDat, Compaq, Dell, ADIC, Cristie and mountain.

As usual all our drives are supplied refurbished with a minimum of 30 days return to base warranty and are available as internal, external and some hotswap. If you still use an older DAT drive in your office and it fails we can ether repair it for you or you can purchase a replacement. Ether way it ensures that you can still use your old tapes and save yourself money by not having to upgrade to a DAT 160 which might be way above your needs.

Call our sales team for further information

Sample of some current and discontinued models.

35450A, 35470A, 3580A, C1521A, C1521G, C1521H, C1529F, C1529G, C1529H, C1529K, 4322RP, 4324RP, 4326RP, CTD8000, C1533A, C1525A, C1525G, C1525H, C1526A, C1526H, C1537A, C1555D, C1554A, C5683A, C5686A, C5687A, C1556A, C1555D, C1557A, C1561A, C1559A, SDT5000, SDT5200, SDT7000, SDT9000, SDT11000, SDT1000, 46JVW, 7212T, 3891D, 340593-001, 122873-001, 158856-001, 199464-001, Q1522A, Q1522B, C7438A, Q1523A, CD72LWH, STD224000N, STD2401LW, STD28000N,

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

We have just received some more of the excellent internal Ultrium 960 from HP. They are full height drives offering upto 800GB of data on one tape.

They also offer the excellent one button disaster recovery facility which allows a complete restore at a touch of a button.

These drives have been refurbished by Castle Computers and are supplied with a 90 day return to base warranty. These drives are still being sold for over £1100 by resellers so grab yourself a bargain today from Castle Computers

When it comes to great business solutions Sony is at the forefront of data storage technology bridging not only power but performance too.

Storage solutions range from internal tape drives and external tape drives with Advanced intelligent tape format which was originally developed by Sony back in 1996. All of the Sony tape drives are compact with low power consumption. AIT provides a bigger recording capacity and much more efficient data transfer rates. When looking for a high reliability backup archive solution Sony have evolved backup technology which will inspire you with confidence.

The best data storage solutions always come from people who realise just how critical your data is. At Castle we know how important keeping your data is and fully test all of out backup products prior to dispatch. Tape drives from major manufacturers such as Quantum and Hp are of course of the highest quality and ideal for most backup solutions.

Established since 1995 Castle Computers supply new and refurbished tape drives and are market leaders in their field. Tape drive devices are often discontinued, so finding that replacement is not always easy. At Castle we supply a whole range of discontinued products to keep up with the needs of our customer’s .

With an in-house repair facility for tape drives and other backup products we will help you every step of the way. A comprehensive range of installation services is also available if required as is on-site repair of tape drives.

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.

Here at Tape Drives we aim to make the process of finding a backup solution or replacement tape drive simplicity itself. All of our backup pages make use of the “get a quote” system so that you can rest assured we will provide you with backup tape information as quickly as is possible.

You may have a fairly old Quantum setup or IBM tape drive we can help with the simple “get a quote” system where our customer service staff will get in touch with you. The reason we have implemented this system is to make the backup tape drive selection process much easier and for you to make certain you get the right backup product.

Our database is literally packed full of stock, so whatever the tape drive requirement is we are here to help.