Affordable cost of
ownership
Many micro or small business customers have limited IT budget available for data protection with
business owners wanting to minimize IT capital and operational expenditure and protect IT
investments to optimize business profitability. The HP RDX Removable Disk Backup System
provides a complete backup solution that has low initial acquisition costs and low on-going media
and upgrade costs.
Total cost of ownership is minimized by the fact that HP RDX cartridges are specified for 5,000
insertion/removal cycles, so HP RDX cartridges will not wear out (and therefore need to be
replaced) over the typical life cycle of the solution. Upgrade and obsolescence costs are also
reduced and investment protection guaranteed by the fact that HP RDX docking stations are
compatible with all current and future higher capacity RDX cartridges. Customers will not need to
purchase a new docking station when next generation higher capacity RDX cartridges are
released. Similarly, today's RDX cartridges are compatible with all current and future HP RDX
docking stations. Customer's existing RDX cartridges will work with next generation HP RDX
docking stations when they are released.
Removability and
portability
To ensure complete data protection against all types of data loss - including on-site system/site
destruction or natural disaster - small businesses need the ability to remove their backup and
archive data off-site. The HP RDX Removable Disk Backup System provides a backup solution
that enables on-site backup data to be removed, stored and rotated off-site in an easy, safe and
secure way.
HP RDX cartridges are portable (palm size), durable (2.5" disk drive features include ramp loading
heads, fluid dynamic bearings, inactive state spin down) and rugged (designed and proven to
withstand a 3 feet (one metre drop) onto concrete). The robust HP RDX cartridge is also designed
to protect data from potentially damaging Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) and as well as prolonged
exposure to heat, dust and other environmental contaminants.
Reliability and
archivability
The HP RDX Removable Disk Backup System provides a docking station specified for more than
10,000 load and unloads and an HP RDX cartridge specified for over 5,000 load and unloads and
long life expectancy.
Easy scalability and
expandability
Many growing micro and small businesses are experiencing storage capacity growth that is
outstripping the capacity/performance of current optical backup solutions. The HP RDX
Removable Disk Backup System provides a backup solution that scales easily as capacity needs
grow. Adding capacity is a simple matter of adding cartridges to an existing HP RDX USB docking
station. The HP RDX Docking Station will work with all current as well future higher capacity
cartridges as they are introduced. The product's roadmap leverages the industry standard mobile
2.5" hard disk drive roadmaps with new higher capacity cartridges expected to be introduced on
an annual basis.
QuickSpecs
HP StorageWorks RDX Removable Disk Backup
System
Product Highlights
DA - 13036 Worldwide QuickSpecs — Version 1 — 6.23.2008
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