Your New Hp Surestore T20 Tape Drive; Before You Start - HP surestore t20xe User Manual

Preparing for Installation

Your New HP SureStore T20 Tape Drive

Your New HP SureStore T20 Tape Drive

Before You Start

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The HP SureStore T20 tape drive provides reliable data protection at an
affordable price. The HP SureStore T20 integrates easily into your small
network server, peer-to-peer network, or desktop computer. Based on
Travan (TR-5) technology, each tape cartridge has a native storage
capacity of 10 GB, enough capacity to back up a small server or peer-to-
peer network on a single tape. Backup applications such as Replica
Backup, Replica Single Server, and HP Colorado Backup II provide
software data compression so that a single tape may store up to 20 GB of
data (assuming a 2:1 compression ratio).
Before you install your HP SureStore T20 drive:
1 Check the contents of the box against the list on page 1-3 for internal
drives or page page 1-5 for external drives.
Write your drive's serial number and other details on the inside front
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cover of this book. The serial number can be found inside the drive's
tape door. The product number is:
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T20i internal drive: C4394A
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T20Xi internal drive: C4401A
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T20e external drive: C4395A
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T20Xe external drive: C4402A
Check that your computer meets the requirements for installation.
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Collect information about the SCSI configuration of your computer and
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any other devices attached to it and decide how you are going to
configure the drive on the SCSI bus. You can use the TapeAssure
software provided on the HP SureStore Tape CD to do this.
Select a free bay for an internal drive.
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or
Select a site for an external drive.