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posted on 06 March 2008 15:34

Tandberg Data, the tape automation company in dire financial trouble, has reduced prices for its VXA drives and autoloaders. These are devices using the VXA-2 and VXA-320 technologies.

The products come with a full 3 years warranty and one year Advanced Replacement Service (ARS). 

Here are the new prices:-

Tandberg Data VXA-2 products
 
Part No -------VXA-2 Tape Drives (160GB capacity- 12MB/s transfer rate)*  .......................... MSRP
114.00500 ------VXA-2 - Internal bare drive, black, SCSI .. $ 429
114.02502 ------VXA-2 - Internal drive Kit, black, SCSI (incl. X23 data & cleaning cartridge) .. $ 509
115.02500 ------VXA-2 - External drive Kit, black, SCSI (incl. X23 data & cleaning cartridge) .. $ 589
115.02502 ------VXA-2 - External drive Kit, black, FireWire (incl. X23 data & cleaning c.) .. $ 659
Also available as IDE/ ATAPI version.

Tandberg Data VXA-320 products
Part No -----------VXA-320 Tape Drives (320GB capacity - 24MB/s transfer rate)* ......................MSRP
400670 ----------- VXA-320 - Internal bare drive, black .. $ 719
502671 ----------- VXA-320 - External drive Kit, black (incl. X23 data & cleaning cartridge) .. $ 889
9201-VXA -------- VXA-320 - External FireWire/USB drive Kit, black (inc. X23 data & cleaning c.)$ 959

Part No ----------- VXA Tape Automation  
900610 ----------- StorageLoader VXA-320 - 1.6 TB / 3.2TB, 10 cartridge slot (SCSI) ..$ 1.699
9611-VXA -------- StorageLoader VXA-320 - 1.6 TB / 3.2TB, 10 cartridge slot (FireWire) .. $ 2.049
* assuming 2:1 data compression

The SCSI drive kits and automation products are supplied with Symantec Backup Exec software, whereas FireWire devices are supplied with EMC Retrospect backup software. There are other configurations available on request.

Buy these products from Tandberg Data authorised resellers.