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Chapter 1 Introduction
Product Overview
Figure 1 Drives Covered in This
User’s Guide
Internal Drive
Features
External Drive
The following list summarizes the key features of the DAT 320 drive.
• External subsystem with built-in, auto-sensing, worldwide power
supply
• Support for various native data-storage capacities (see Capacity and
Transfer Rates)
• High-speed transfer rates for fast backups (see Capacity and Transfer
Rates)
• Advanced hardware compression, doubling the drive’s
uncompressed capacity, that is a 160 GB uncompressed drive can be
320 GB with compression (see Capacity and Transfer Rates).
• Three levels of error-correction code (ECC) and four-head design for
read-after-write (RAW) error detection and correction
(noncorrectable error rate of less than 1 in 1015 bits)
• Flash memory to store setup parameters and enable field firmware
upgrades
• Automatic power-on self-test
Applications
The DAT 320 is ideal for workstation, server, and network/enterprise
applications. These applications include, but are not limited to:
• Backup of high-capacity fixed discs
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