| | | | | In the SLR-7 tape the recording of the data is done |
| The type and format of the backup storage medium | | | | on 2 tracks and is recording is done in parallel. While in |
| used effects the future growth, investment | | | | SLR-60 & SLR-100, the recording is done on 4 tracks. |
| protection and performance of the company. The | | | | The data is recorded on the media in such a form |
| restore & backup strategy are dependent on the | | | | that incase of degrading of media, the data could be |
| format of the tape medium being used. According to | | | | read in the operation of restoring. The attributes and |
| the findings, more than five hundred thousand drives | | | | technologies that enhance the speed of the SLR |
| of SLR are installed in Servers of iSeries around the | | | | tape are the “auto sense function”, |
| world. The SLR tape format is best suited for the | | | | “inline compression”. The data buffers are |
| “iSeries” and it protects the high volumes of | | | | also large in the SLR technology. The SLR-1 tape |
| data with fast recovery and backup performance. | | | | format gives the tape solution for entry level and at |
| The SLR is the abbreviation of “Scalable Linear | | | | a low cost. Since the year of the introduction of SLR, |
| Recording” and Tandberg Data introduced the | | | | about 2 million drives of SLR have been installed by |
| first generation SLR-1 tape in the year 1987. | | | | the companies worldwide. |
| Tandberg is one of the major manufacturer and | | | | The cost of ownership for the SLR tape format is |
| supplier of the backup tape media products. The | | | | very low because it has low rate of failure which is |
| major tape formats of Tandberg are the Linear Tape | | | | about 1.5 percent. The SLR is best for those |
| Open (LTO), Digital Linear Tape (DLT) and the | | | | enterprises where the field maintenance is low. |
| Scalable Linear Recording (SLR). | | | | The SLR-60 has 30 GB native capacity and 60GB of |
| The product line of the Tandberg includes the backup | | | | compressed recording capacity. The data transfer |
| tape libraries, tape autoloaders, media and backup | | | | rate is 4MB/sec with 8MB/sec of compressed rate. |
| data tape drives. | | | | The transfer rate per hour is 15GB/hour with |
| At first the SLR backup tape was based on the | | | | compressed rate of 30GB/hour. |
| technology of QIC (Quarter Inch Cartridge). | | | | The SLR-100 has 50 GB native capacity and 100GB |
| Afterwards the technology used was the SLR (Single | | | | of compressed recording capacity. The data transfer |
| Channel Linear Recording). Then new technology MLR | | | | rate is 5MB/sec with 10MB/sec of compressed rate. |
| (Multi Channel Linear Recording) was added and then | | | | The transfer rate per hour is 18GB/hour with |
| to its present form of the SLR tape format. The | | | | compressed rate of 36GB/hour. |
| SLR tape media products are highly scalable, reliable. | | | | The reliable and robust backup tape format choices |
| They are also compatible both forward and | | | | for the small & medium business enterprises are the |
| backward with the other generations of SLR format. | | | | SLR-60, SLR-100 and the SLR-140 backup tapes. |