Hewlett Packard Enterprise Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge User Guide

: June 12, 2024
: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Table of Contents

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge
Overview
What’s New
Key Features & Benefits
Models
Standard Features
Compatibility
Warranty
Service and Support
Recommended Services
Configuration Information
Related Hardware Options
Technical Specifications
Summary of Changes
FAQ’s
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge

Overview

The HPE RDX Removable Disk Cartridge is a rugged and removable hard disk drive cartridge that provides easy offsite data protection and quick access to your most critical data. When used with an HPE RDX internal or external dock, the HPE RDX backup system becomes an ideal entry level backup solution for small businesses with a single server or branch offices with little or no IT resources

What’s New

RDX 4TB Removable Disk Cartridge

Key Features & Benefits

Easy scalability with a choice of 500 GB, 1 TB,2 TB, 3 TB and 4 TB cartridge capacities.
Portability with a shock proof cartridge style hard drive
Dramatically increase your data capacity by spanning data across multiple cartridges
Designed for durability with over 5,000 load/unload insertions over the lifetime of the disk.
Cartridges are interchangeable in any HPE RDX Removable Disk Backup System

Models

Description SKU
HPE RDX 500GB Removable Disk Cartridge Q2042A
HPE RDX 1TB Removable Disk Cartridge Q2044A
HPE RDX 2TB Removable Disk Cartridge Q2046A
HPE RDX 4TB Removable Disk Cartridge Q2048A

Standard Features

The Flexible Way to Protect Your Business Data Faster and More Securely

The HP RDX Removable Disk Cartridge delivers flexibly meeting both budget and capacity requirements with a choice of 320 GB, 500 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB removable disk cartridges. The HP RDX Removable Disk Backup System works with current and future higher capacity cartridges for backward compatibility.
Backs up data at fast hard drive speeds (up to 360 GB/hr) and restores critical files in seconds instead of hours with the benefit of random disk access versus a tape drive solution.
Backup using drag and drop file access which makes backup simple and convenient. Schedule automated backups using Windows Backup, native to the Windows operating system.

Protects Your Business Data While Respecting Your Business Costs

The HP RDX Removable Disk Cartridge reduces on-going media and upgrade costs with disk cartridges designed with a long usage life.
Rugged, portable and durable removable disk cartridges enable business critical backup data to be simply and securely taken off-site for disaster recovery, archive or data transfer.
Cartridges are specified for over 5,000 load and unload cycles and designed for long life expectancy.
RDX 500 GB, RDX 1 TB and RDX 2 TB cartridges are tested to withstand a drop of 1 meter (3 ft).

Works in a Broad Set of Small Business Operating Environments

The HP RDX Removable Disk Cartridge suits almost every small business operating environment.
The RDX Removable Disk Backup System is compatible with all current and future higher capacity RDX Removable Disk Cartridges making the system fully multi-generational.

Compatibility

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has an extensive compatibility testing program that verifies the HPE RDX Removable Disk Cartridge and HPE RDX Removable Disk Backup Systems work with other competitors’ branded RDX backup systems. HPE RDX Removable Disk Cartridge and HPE RDX Removable Disk Backup Systems are compatible with the following classes of HPE ProLiant servers and storage products.

HPE ProLiant DL Servers
HPE ProLiant ML Servers
HPE StoreEver 1U Rack-mount Kit

For details of which HPE RDX Removable Disk Cartridges work with which systems, including third-party systems, visit: http://www.hpe.com/storage/spock for the latest hardware compatibility information.
Notes: Hewlett Packard Enterprise recommends that no more than one HPE RDX Removable Disk Backup System be connected to a system at a time.

OS Support

Operating System| Version
Windows Client & Server Operating Systems| Windows Server 2016 Standard & Data Center (x86, x64), Windows 10 Home & Pro (x86, x64), Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64), Windows Server 2012 (x64), Windows Small Business Server 2011 (x64), Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64), Windows Server 2008 (x86, x64), Windows Server 2003 R2 (x86, x64), Windows Server 2003 (x86, x64), Windows 8.1 (x86, x64), Windows 8 (x86, x64),

Windows 7 (x86, x64) SP1, Windows Vista (x86, x64) SP1 or later, Windows XP (x86) SP2 or later)

Linux Distributions (Kernal ver. 2.6.9 and later)| RedHat Enterprise Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server CentOS Linux

Fedora Core 5 Clear OS

Apple| Mac-OS (OS X) 10.3 and up
Virtualization Compatibility| vSphere 6.5, Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V, KVM, Clear OS, XenServer

Notes: Please visit: http://www.hpe.com/storage/spock for the latest operating system compatibility information.

Backup Software Support
Veeam Endpoint, Windows Backup, Yosemite Server Backup Basic Software, HPE Data Protector Express, CA BrightStor ARCServe Backup, Symantec Backup Exec, and other backup applications that support removable disk media
Notes: Please visit: http://www.hpe.com/storage/spock for the latest compatibility information.

Warranty

Hewlett Packard Enterprise provides a 3 year, next-day, parts exchange, limited warranty for the HPE RDX Removable Disk Cartridge, plus 9×5 phone support for the duration of the warranty.
For more information about the HPE RDX Removable Disk Cartridge limited warranty, visit: http://h20565.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public?ac.admitted=1507638979203.125225703.1851288163
For more information about HPE’s Global Limited Warranty and Technical Support, please visit: http://h20565.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public?ac.admitted=1507638979203.125225703.1851288163

Service and Support

HPE Pointnext – Service and Support
Get the most from your HPE Products. Get the expertise you need at every step of your IT journey with HPE Pointnext Services. We help you lower your risks and overall costs using automation and methodologies that have been tested and refined by HPE experts through thousands of deployments globally. HPE Pointnext Advisory Services, focus on your business outcomes and goals, partnering with you to design your transformation and build a roadmap tuned to your unique challenges. Our Professional and Operational Services can be leveraged to speed up time-to-production, boost performance and accelerate your business. HPE Pointnext specializes in flawless and on-time implementation, on-budget execution, and creative configurations that get the most out of software and hardware alike.

Consume IT on your terms
HPE GreenLake brings the cloud experience directly to your apps and data wherever they are—the edge, colocations, or your data center. It delivers cloud services for on-premises IT infrastructure specifically tailored to your most demanding workloads. With a pay-per-use, scalable, point-and-click self- service experience that is managed for you, HPE GreenLake accelerates digital transformation in a distributed, edge-to-cloud world.

Get faster time to market
Save on TCO, align costs to business
Scale quickly, meet unpredictable demand
Simplify IT operations across your data centers and clouds

Managed services to run your IT operations
HPE GreenLake Management Services provides services that monitor, operate, and optimize your infrastructure and applications, delivered consistently and globally to give you unified control and let you focus on innovation.

Free up resources with Operational Services from HPE Pointnext
HPE delivers services for IT by using proven best practices as well as automation and methodologies that have been tested and refined by HPE experts and artificial intelligence through thousands of deployments globally. Choose from the recommended services for customers purchasing from Hewlett Packard Enterprise or an authorized reseller. Services are quoted using Hewlett Packard Enterprise order configuration tools.

Recommended Services

HPE Pointnext Tech Care.
HPE Pointnext Tech Care is the new operational service experience for HPE products. Tech Care goes beyond traditional support by providing access to product specific experts, an AI driven digital experience, and general technical guidance to not only reduce risk but constantly search for ways to do things better. HPE Pointnext Tech Care has been reimagined from the ground up to support a customer-centric, AI driven, and digitally enabled customer experience to move your business forward. HPE Pointnext Tech Care is available in three response levels. Basic, which provides 9×5 business hour availability and a 2 hour response time. Essential which provides a 15 minute response time 24×7 for most enterprise level customers, and Critical which includes a 6 hour repair commitment where available and outage management response for severity 1 incidents. https://www.hpe.com/services/techcare

HPE Pointnext Complete Care
HPE Pointnext Complete Care is a modular, edge-to-cloud IT environment service that provides a holistic approach to optimizing your entire IT environment and achieving agreed upon IT outcomes and business goals through a personalized and customer-centric experience. All delivered by an assigned team of HPE Pointnext Services experts. HPE Pointnext Complete Care provides:

A complete coverage approach — edge to cloud
An assigned HPE team
Modular and fully personalized engagement
Enhanced Incident Management experience with priority access
Digitally enabled and AI driven customer experience
https://www.hpe.com/services/completecare

For more information

To learn more on HPE Storage Services, please contact your Hewlett Packard Enterprise sales representative or Hewlett Packard Enterprise Authorized Channel Partner. Contact information for a representative in your area can be found at “Contact HPE” https://www.hpe.com/us/en/contact-hpe.html
HPE Support Services are sold by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Authorized Service Partners:

Services for customers purchasing from HPE or an enterprise reseller are quoted using HPE order configuration tools.
Customers purchasing from a commercial reseller can find HPE Support Services at https://ssc.hpe.com/portal/site/ssc/

Configuration Information

RDX Models

Description SKU
HPE RDX 500GB Removable Disk Cartridge Q2042A
HPE RDX 1TB Removable Disk Cartridge Q2044A
HPE RDX 2TB Removable Disk Cartridge Q2046A
HPE RDX 4TB Removable Disk Cartridge Q2048A

HPE RDX Internal
HPE RDX Internal Docking Station

RDX Removable Disk Backup System Internal Docking Station installation poster/flyer, internal USB cable, power cable. Is backwards and forwards compatible with any RDX capacity media.

HPE RDX External
HPE RDX External Docking Station

RDX Removable Disk Backup System External Docking Station installation poster/flyer, external USB Y-cable. Is backward and forwards compatible with any RDX capacity media

Technical Specifications

Performance and Compatibility

Native Capacity
500GB, 1TB, 2TB, 3TB or 4TB
*Compressed Capacity
1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 6TB or 8TB
Notes:* Assumes 2:1 application-based data compression.
Native average sustained transfer rate
Up to 100 MB/s
*Compressed average sustained transfer rate
Up to 200 MB/s
Notes:* Assumes 2:1 application-based data compression.
Average Access time
< 15 ms
Supported File Systems
NTFS, FAT32, ext2, ext3, ext4 and Mac OS Extended (HFS+)
Supported Operating Systems
Windows XP, Windows Vista SP1, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Small Business Server 2008, Small Business Server 2011, CentOS Linux, Fedora Core 5, RHEL, SLES, OS X (HPE RDX Compatibility details are available at http://www.hpe.com/storage/spock)
RDX Cartridge Compatibility
Forward and backward compatible to all RDX drives and systems (Note, a firmware upgrade is required for legacy RDX USB 2.0 drives, for use with 3TB or 4TB cartridges. See http://www.hpe.com/support/rdx).

Reliability

MTBF (Drive)
550,000 hours
Uncorrected Error Rate
1 error per 1014 bits read

Load/ Unload Cycles

Drive
Minimum of 10,000 Load/Unload cycles
Cartridge
Minimum of 5,000 Load/Unload cycles
Cartridge Drop Shock (non-operating)
1m drop to tile over concrete floor

Power Specifications and Interface Voltage

Internal Drive
+ 5V or +12V
External Drive
+ 5V (USB powered or Power Adaptor) or + 12V (Power Adaptor)

Operating Current during write/read (Typical/Peak)

Internal Drive @ 5V
0.9A / 1. 6A
Internal Drive @ 12V
0.005A
External Drive @ 5V
0.9A / 1.6A (powered via USB)
External Drive @ 5V
1.2A / 2.4A (powered via Power Adaptor)
External Drive @ 12V
0.5A / 1A (powered via Power Adaptor)

Power Connector

Internal Drive
4- Pin Molex
External Drive
USB 3.0 Y-cable (supplied) or Power Adaptor (not supplied)

Interface

Internal Drive
USB 3.0 SuperSpeed (Type-B connector)
External Drive
USB 3.0 SuperSpeed (Type-B connector)

Orientation (Mounting and Operational)

Internal Drive
Horizontal or Vertical
External Drive
Horizontal or Vertical

Environmental Operating Conditions

Temperature
+ 10°C to +40°C (+50°F to +104°F)
Vibration
0.5G (operating)
Relative Humidity
20% to 80%, non-condensing
Altitude
– 15 m to 3,048 m (-50 ft to 10,000 ft)

Non-Operating Conditions

Temperature
– 40°C to +65°C (-40°F to +149°F)
Vibration
1.0G (non-operating)
Relative Humidity
8% to 90%, non-condensing
Altitude
– 15 m to 10,660 m (-50 ft to 35,000 ft)

Archival Conditions

Temperature
5°C to +26°C (41°F to 78°F)
Relative Humidity
8% to 90%, non-condensing
Maximum Wet Bulb
25°C (77°F), non-condensing

Dimensions Product only (no Packaging)

Internal Drive (H x W x D)
1.63 x 5.78 x 6.72 inches (4.14 x 14.60 x 17.07 cm) including bezel
External Drive (H x W x D)
2.04 x 4.32 x 7.00 inches (5.18 x 10.98 x 17.75 cm) including bezel
Cartridge (H x W x D)
0.92 x 3.39 x 4.68 inches (2.34 x 8.66 x 11.9 cm)

Shipping (Product and Packaging)

Internal Drive (H x W x D)
8.1 x 11.2 x 3.3 inches (20.9 x 28.0 x 8.6 cm)
External Drive (H x W x D)
6.5 x 9.8 x 3.6 inches (16.4 x 25.0 x 9.2 cm)
Internal System(H x W x D)**
8.1 x 14.6 x 3.3 inches (20.9 x 37.0 x 8.6 cm)
External System(H x W x D)**
6.7 x 9.8 x 5.5 inches (17.0 x 25.0 x 14.0 cm)
Cartridge only (H x W x D)
4.52 7.48 x 2.75 inches (11.5 x 19.0 x 7.0 cm)
Notes: **System = Drive and Cartridge.

Weights

Internal Drive
lb (408g)
External Drive
1.35 lb (615g)
Cartridge
Up to 0.60 lb (272g) HDD dependent

Shipping (Products and Packaging)

Internal Drive
2.38 lb (1080g)
External Drive
2.28 lb (1036g)
Internal System**
3.08 to 3.37 lb (1395 to 1527g) HDD dependent
External System**
3.12 to 3.35 lb (1414 to 1519g) HDD dependent
Cartridge
0.76 lb to 1.04 lb (344g to 470g) HDD dependent
Notes: **System = Drive and Cartridge.

Summary of Changes

Date| Version History| Action| Description of Change
---|---|---|---
01-Nov-2021| Version 20| Changed| Service and Support section was updated.
14-Jun-2021| Version 19| Changed| Overview section was updated.
07-Jun-2021| Version 18| Changed| Obsolete SKU was removed
06-Jul-2020| Version 17| Changed| QuickSpecs layout was updated and Branding Refresh was applied.
06-Apr-2020| Version 16| Changed| QuickSpecs layout was updated
15-Oct-2018| Version 15| Changed| SKU descriptions were updated. Obsolete models were removed.
06-Nov-2017| Version 14| Changed| Fixed the Tech Specs section
25-Sep-2017| Version 13| Changed| Changes made throughout the QuickSpecs
08-May-2017| Version 12| Changed| Changes made to the Overview and Product Highlights sections
27-Mar-2017| Version 11| Changed| Changes made to the Overview Section
07-Jun-2016| Version 10| Changed| Added 3TB capacity information and related hardware
16-Oct-2015| Version 9| Removed| Removed 320GB cartridges, updated picture to not show that cartridge. Removed specific mention of DL server modules, as those SKU’s are EOL. Removed external backup system SKU’s (EOL).

Removed mention of CDP software, replaced with mention of Yosemite Server Backup Basic and Fixed Disk mode.

31-Mar-2014| Version 8| Changed| Changes made to Overview, What’s New, Features and Technical

Specifications sections.

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FAQ’s

What is the capacity of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge?

The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge has a capacity of 2 TB.

What is the interface type of the Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge?

The Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge uses the USB 3.0 interface for data transfer.

Is the Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge compatible with all RDX systems?

Yes, the Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge is compatible with all RDX systems.

Can the Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge be used for both backup and archiving purposes?

Yes, the Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge can be used for both backup and archiving purposes.

What is the maximum transfer rate of the Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge?

The Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge has a maximum transfer rate of up to 360 MB/s.

Does the Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge require any special drivers or software?

The Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge is compatible with most operating systems and does not require any special drivers or software.

Is the Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge backward compatible with older RDX systems?

Yes, the Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge is backward compatible with older RDX systems.

Can the Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge withstand physical shocks?

Yes, the Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge is designed to withstand physical shocks and provides reliable data protection.

What is the estimated cartridge life of the Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge?

The Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge has an estimated cartridge life of up to 5,000 load/unload cycles.

Does the Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge support hardware encryption?

Yes, the Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge supports hardware encryption for enhanced data security.

Can the Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge be used for off-site storage?

Yes, the Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge can be used for off-site storage as it is portable and durable.

Is the Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge compatible with HPE backup software?

Yes, the Q2046A RDX Removable Disk Cartridge is compatible with HPE backup software, providing seamless integration for backup and restore operations.

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