Tape drives and media frequently fail, magnetic tapes are susceptible to the oxide flaking off after a period of time. According to one of the largest tape library manufacturers tape drives mounted in a tape library have an annual failure rate of 60%.

Disk to Disk backup technology (D2D) eliminates the need for manual intervention that comes with traditional tape backup systems, including physically labelling, boxing, shipping (and/or rotating) and tracking tape media. 

GSS offer a range of disk to disk backup products that outperform tape drives and libraries in performance, reliability, scalability, ease of use and functionality.