6 Reasons Our Systems Beat Tape
 
Highly Adaptable Capacity
With a Tape system, as your backup needs grow, you reach a point
where your nightly backup will not fit on one tape.
You will then face three options:
 
  1. Scale back the amount of data you back up each night
  2. Run half the backup job at night, and half during the day
  3. Purchase a new tape backup system with greater capacity

None of these options sound very appealing do they?

Our suppliers are currently manufacturing 500GB Hard Drives, and that size grows every quarter.

With the High-Rely system, as your needs grow, you simply add new media.

Significantly Faster
  Our systems connect to your server via a USB 2.0 cable. (They will operate with a USB 1.1 interface, but you should use 2.0 for best performance)

The maximum speed over USB 2.0 is 60MBytes/sec. (We have found in our testing that most systems actually put data on to the drives at a rate for 40-50MBytes/sec, accounting for the overhead of the file transfer.) The fastest tape drives on the market are 30MBytes/sec, and most are in the 10-20MBytes/sec range.

This means your backup jobs run anywhere from 40%-500% FASTER.

Far Sturdier
  Conventional wisdom would have you believe that once your data is written to tape, it is nice and safe. Nothing could be further from the truth. Modern Hard Drives are *far* more resilient. Drive Savers, a leading data recovery firm, reports a 98% recovery rate for damaged hard drives. Their site shows just a few of their many awesome saves from fire, flood, and a host of other disasters.

With tape, if a fire hit your media, there wouldn't be anything left to recover.

More Convenient
  With our 5-Bay tower systems (or our 7-Bay rack-mount version), you can leave an entire week's worth of media plugged in at a time. You simply change out all 5 (or 7) drives once a week and take them to your off-site storage location.

You get the convenience of a robotic tape library for about 1/5th the price.

Less Complex
  Tape drive systems require fancy special drivers to operate properly with your backup software. There is a host of special problems that are caused by the operation of the mechanical parts of a tape drive. Tensioning, cataloguing, and searching sequential media is a major headache.

Our system does not require any special drivers at all. Depending on the system you purchase, simply plug in a single USB cable or eSATA cable and, boom, you have 5 (or 7) new drive letters to write your backup data to. In fact, you don't even need to use expensive backup software at all if you don't want to. NTBACKUP, XCOPY, ROBOCOPY, and a number of other free, or very low cost utilities can be used to backup your data. If you use something like XCOPY, you can drill down into the directories on your backup media and pull a single file straight off it in seconds! To do the same thing with tape can take hours, especially if you are searching for the right tape, you don't have them catalogued, etc.

Our products are so easy to set up and use that even novice users can understand them.

More Value
  All of these points add up to a very simple fact: Our backup systems provide much more bang for your buck.

To get all of the same features from tape as from one of our multi-bay units, you would have to purchase a DLT autoloader, or similar device for at least $9,000.