IBM LTO - 3 Tape Format Provides Unmatched Scalability

LTO data storage technology is more advantageouswhich doubles its speed as well as its data capacity.
and has gain more success and popularity due to itsThe data tracks of the IBM 24R1922 tape are
"open" format. Linear tape open is highly scalable andfurther divided into 4 areas. Each area is called "data
features breakthrough technologies that make it idealband". Servo information bounds the top &
to meet the challenges of current data intensivebottom of each data band. Data is written on each
applications and strict laws. Highly efficient IBM LTOdata bands of IBM LTO-3 tape media one at a time.
offers multiple sources of media and products.Cartridge memory is unique feature included in the
IBM, Seagate and HP combined their efforts andIBM LTO cartridges.
engineered a new innovative LTO technology thatUpon loading the tape into the drive, it reads the
offers a viable and ideal storage medium in a growingcontents held in the 4KB cartridge memory to
complex of backup data storage options. This tapeaccelerate its performance and upgrade the data
has established new standards for performance,throughput. The cartridge memory is non-volatile and
capacity and data throughput. Exceptionalis embedded in the robust cartridge shell of IBM
compatibility of high capacity This tape enables theLTO-3. Users of IBM LTO tape format are offered
users to interchange their sensitive data acrossmore luxury as they do not have to insert the
different platforms. Increasing needs of the moderncartridge into the drive for retrieving the information
backup applications are efficiently accommodated byabout initialization, manufacturer's data, and calibration
the new advanced IBM LTO-3 media format.information.
24R1922 is the part number of the highly economicalDedicated dual servo mechanism of IBM ultrium-3
IBM ultrium 3 cartridge whose native capacity is 400increases the data integrity. LTO-3 ultrium technology
GB. The compression ratio offered by the IBM LTO-3features error correction system which comprises of
is 2:1. This means that the data recording capability of2 levels. This error correction system is very
this tape will be twice as that of its native capacity.effective and recovers the information from the
Ultrium is a powerful and high capacity specification oflongitudinal scratches. When the LTO data tapes are
linear tape open whose per cartridge native capacitybeing manufactured, the servo bands are recorded
offerings range from 100GB (LTO-1 media tape) toonto the media tape.
800GB (LTO-4 tape). High performance LTO-3 tapeIf any of the elements of servo becomes corrupt or
products developed by IBM are carefully engineereddefective, the head of the tape drive continues to
to meet the organizations' needs at an affordabletrack because of the 2nd redundant servo
cost. The design of this tape comprises of a singlemechanism. The servo frame in IBM LTO-3 ultrium
hub that allows optimized packaging of media withinformat encodes the words in longitudinal position
the ultrium cartridge.which enables the data administrators to retrieve
IBM has developed an exceptional and reliableinformation from the absolute areas along the entire
compression algorithm for the LTO-3 tape formattape's length.