Q4.30/50 Tape Library

Breece Hill Technology's Q4.30/50 mid-range DLT tape library provides outstanding value with features normally reserved for enterprise class products. Housing 1 to 4 drives and 30 or 50 cartridges, data capacity reaches 4 TB and sustained transfer rates hit 173 GB/hr*. Flexible connectivity offers powerful and innovative methods for attaching to any major operating system as well as to SAN environments. Available DataIQ™ Network Interface facilitates network monitoring and control. Independence in tape technology provides scalable tape storage solutions.

Product Highlights

Scalability
It's tough to predict how fast your data will grow. That's why we designed scalability into the Q4.30/50. You can invest in the library, initially configured with just 30 cartridge cells. And as your data storage needs grow, the library expands to 50 with a simple upgrade kit. Scaling up is easy and can be performed in the field in a matter of minutes.

Universal Load Plate Design
One of many key features in Breece Hill's engineering design is the patented universal load plate on which tape drives are mounted. This allows you to use drives them not only in your Q4.30/50, but in any other Breece Hill library as well by swapping them between libraries in the field.

Drive Independent
Even more important though, Breece Hill's patented universal load plate design allows the library to be drive independent. This means it can support different linear tape drive technologies in the same library. Now you can combine DLT and LTO in the same unit, and seamlessly migrate to new or different linear technologies as your backup needs change.

Embedded Intelligence
Embedded intelligence distinguishes Breece Hill's libraries. The company's patented robotic positioning system consisting of a "learning algorithm" automatically and continuously re-calibrates to compensate for any changes in the library's physical environment. The robot can sense changes in the physical environment and then adjust for those changes, significantly reducing downtime and lowering overall service costs. The library barcode reader generates faster inventory times than other comparable products. Moreover, extensive recovery routines are enabled in a power-out situation. The library not only remembers what it was doing, but completes the action when power is restored, significantly reducing downtime and service costs.

Enterprise Functionality in a Midrange Product
Engineered for remote, centralized network connectivity, the 4.30/50 library offers optional DataIQ™ Network Interface. This feature is the library's network attach architecture built on open standards. A single board computer installed in the options bay and a custom Java applet called Itelaä facilitates network monitoring and control via the web, email alerts, or simple network management protocol (SNMP).

Sophisticated Remote Library Management with Data IQ™ Network Interface
From a single computer, you can configure the library, check its status, run diagnostics, operate the library or perform log activities. If you are offsite, just point your web browser to the library's Internet address and manage the library from anywhere in the world. Such efficient control functionality decreases the cost of operation and ultimately decreases the total cost of ownership.

DataIQ™ Network Interface benefits users in a number of ways: increased efficiency among IS personnel, flexible methods of library monitoring and control, software and hardware cost savings, increased library availability, easy remote management, and highly reliable backup and archival.

SAN Connectivity
With the information explosion, it's important to know that the Q4.30/50 provides universal compatibility with any SAN or NAS architecture. So you can be prepared to take your company to the next level of sophistication as your storage goals and priorities change.

Compatibility
Like all Breece Hill libraries, the Q4.30/50 interfaces with any major operating system including UNIX™, Windows NT™, Novell™ and others. Qualified with the leading storage management applications, it affords you great choice and flexibility in your software selection.

Professional Services and Technical Support
We pride ourselves on exceptional, quick-response customer service. We deliver on that by having the most knowledgeable in-house technical support team around. Breece Hill offers various service and maintenance options on each product, and our standard 3 year warranty gives users additional peace of mind. Moreover, our professional services team provides technical analysis and consultation to help you identify storage strategies and implement solutions, taking you where you want to go.

* Based on published DLT8000 specifications.

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