| -Packard has become the second major LTO tape | | | | and now partitioning is being offered by LTO5 tape. |
| drive manufacturer to deliver LTO-5 Ultrium drives, as | | | | |
| well as LTO-5 libraries and (multi-sourced) data media | | | | With the LTO5 tape drives, HP introduced a free |
| cartridges. | | | | software tool called TapeAssure that supervise the |
| An announcement comes on the heels of Quantum's | | | | status, performance (including backup reports), |
| introduction earlier march of LTO-5 Ultrium tape | | | | utilization and health (e.g. remaining head life) of the |
| drives, autoloaders and cartridges. Other tape library | | | | tape drives and media. |
| vendors, such as Overland Storage and Spectra | | | | LTO-4 and LTO-3 tape cartridges can be accessed |
| Logic, have also announced LTO-5 tape products, as | | | | by the HP EH957A tape drive. The drive can record |
| have all of the LTO media manufacturers, including | | | | and read the LTO-4 tapes, while it can only read the |
| Fujifilm, Imation, Maxell, Quantum, Sony and TDK. | | | | stored data on LTO-3 cartridges. Read/write enable |
| LTO tape cartridges have a native capacity of 1.5TB | | | | LTO-4 and LTO-5 tapes are given here: D2407 |
| (3TB with 2:1 compression) and LTO-5 drives have a | | | | (LTO4 tape - TDK), 26247007 (LTO4 - Fuji), 183906 |
| native transfer rate of up to 140MBps (280MBps in | | | | (LTO ultrium-4 tape - Maxell), LTX800G (LTO-4 |
| compressed mode, which translates into a backup | | | | media cartridge - Sony), 229323 (LTO-5 tape - |
| rate of 1TB / hour). LTO-5 cartridge capacity is | | | | Maxell), LTX1500G (LTO5 ultrium tape - Sony), |
| almost 2X the capacity of LTO-4's native 800GB. | | | | C7975A (LTO ultrium-5 tape - HP), MR-L5MQN-01 |
| LTO-5 Specs: More Speed, Capacity | | | | (LTO5 backup tape - Quantum), and 27672 (LTO 5 |
| LTO-5 increases the speed up to 180 Mbps and | | | | tape - Imation). |
| capacity to 1.6 TB in native form (not compressed). | | | | Advanced interlock and smart-grabber systems |
| The compression ratio in LTO-5 tape format is 2:1, | | | | employed in HP LTO5 ultrium disallow the movement |
| which is the same for all earlier versions. Compared | | | | of tape cartridges leader-pin within tape housing. HP |
| to LTO-4 tapes, generation 5 twice over the | | | | LTO-5 EH957A drive is ideally designed for automatic |
| capacity and boosts the speed by an extra 50%. | | | | tape libraries and improved resistance against |
| In addition to dependable bumps upward in | | | | pollutants. Longer useful life secures the investments |
| accordance to speed and capacity, each version | | | | and facilitates the businesses to satisfy the tough |
| brings in new features in itself. LTO-3 tape brought in | | | | demands of data maintenance laws. |
| WORM (write once, read many), encryption in LTO4, | | | | |