ANDATACO delivers ultimate tape solution with new ESP DLT 7000.

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 6, 1996--ANDATACO Wednesday announced the release of its ESP DLT 7000, which incorporates advanced DLT tape technology with its intelligent Enterprise Storage Packaging (ESP).

In addition to proactive storage management, the ESP DLT 7000 also boasts superior performance with 35 GB (native) capacity per cartridge, and a 2.25 (native) MB/s data transfer rate.

The DLT 7000 is the next generation in DLT technology, evolving from its predecessor, the DLT 4000. While they both use the same media, the DLT 7000 implements a symmetrical phase recording technique (it reads/writes at a nine degree angle) vs. the 4000's traditional horizontal recording method.

Also, the DLT 7000's track width was reduced from the 4000's 3 mils to 1.75 mils. These primary changes facilitate the DLT 7000's increased data storage capacity and transfer rates.

ANDATACO's ESP program manager, Michelle Hagen commented: "This technology (the DLT 7000) is truly state-of-the-art. It may be the fastest, most reliable, largest capacity tape device on the market."

A potential downfall of the new DLT 7000 drive is its elevated running temperature. Hagen stated: "People will have problems cooling this drive. That is why ANDATACO bundled it with ESP. ESP's ingenious Venturi-lens cooling system easily cools hotter, more powerful drives such as the DLT 7000."

In addition to facilitating its hotter temperatures, ESP also increases the DLT 7000's fault tolerance with advanced monitoring technology.

ESP is a revolutionary cable-less enclosure for disk, tape, optical and RAID subsystems -- expandable in size. Its intelligent microprocessor monitors a system's components and proactively alerts administrators of possible failures via visual, audible, alphanumeric pager and e-mail alarms.

Once warned, IS managers can fix a potentially faulty unit before it causes system downtime, or worse, data loss. By eliminating unplanned downtime, ESP dramatically increases data accessibility and user productivity.

Hagen concluded, "By encasing the DLT 7000 in our ESP technology, ANDATACO delivers the ultimate in tape storage solutions -- offering both elevated performance and maximum fault tolerance."

ANDATACO, a leader in the network storage industry, manufactures cutting-edge products that protect and manage companies' business-critical data. To learn more about ANDATACO's innovative Enterprise Storage Packaging or its disk and tape arrays, visit its award-winning Web site at http://www.andataco.com, or call 800/334-9191.

CONTACT: ANDATACO, San Diego 

Joy Wheeler, 800/334-9191, ext. 1117

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