| In a time when data has become the real global | | | | compared to LTO tapes, and simultaneously it works |
| currency, there is nothing significantly important for | | | | in a different way in contrast to LTO tape drives. In |
| your organization’s future than protecting | | | | LTO tape recording, data is written on various |
| trustworthy storage. There are several ways to take | | | | adjacent tracks that run along with to the edge of |
| a back up of your files and create a protected library. | | | | the tape. By using Digital Linear Tape (DLT) |
| DLT Tapes: | | | | technology, it may be possible to compel this |
| DLT (Digital Linear Tape) is a magnetic tape format | | | | technology to record 208 tracks across a |
| developed by an inherited firm of Hewlett-Packard | | | | one-half-inch tape, allowing each tape to store up to |
| named DEC. DLT tapes are 1/2 inch wide and | | | | 35GB. However, to accomplish the next generation |
| generally are packaged in burly plastic containers. DLT | | | | tape capacities of 100GB and even greater, |
| tapes can stock up between 10GB to 40GB of | | | | significantly more tracks must be written on the |
| uncompressed data, a popular average data storage | | | | media. |
| solution. | | | | SDLT is the next generation product offered by |
| LTO Tapes: | | | | Quantum. The initial version of SDLT is a bit alike to |
| LTO (Linear Tape-Open) is a tape standard produced | | | | LTO Ultrium with a local aptitude of 110GB per |
| by HP, IBM, and Seagate as a competitor to DLT. | | | | cartridge and a native data transfer rate of 11MB/sec |
| LTO tape stores data in 384 data tracks which are | | | | for SDLT; LTO Ultrium has a local aptitude of 100GB |
| divided into four data bands of 96 tracks each. The | | | | and a local transfer rate of 15MB/sec. |
| four data bands are encircled by bands of servo | | | | As customers require more and more storage |
| information which are written during tape | | | | capacities, it’s preferred to have a proven and |
| manufactures. Data bands are filled one-at-a-time, in a | | | | trustworthy tape storage system that protects data |
| linear approach. LTO tapes include 4KB of non-volatile | | | | integrity, supports future capacity growth, and |
| memory which can be read through a non-contacting | | | | permits later generation drives to interpret earlier |
| passive RF interface. This storage space holds data | | | | generation tapes. Having multiple world-class |
| about the tape and can be read without the time | | | | manufacturing firms of tape drives and storage |
| needed to read the magnetic tape itself. | | | | media all committed to the LTO format will create |
| There is a critical hardware difference between both, | | | | competition in the tape industry that will finally benefit |
| the DLT tapes have an unusual storage system as | | | | users. |