New LTO3 Tape Technology

The specifications of LTO3 tape have providedWORM ultrium cartridge. Therefore the users can
opportunity to the manufacturers of LTO ultrium totake complete advantage of the great recording
offer LTO 3 tape products with incorporated featurecapacity of the LTO ultrium tape and perform their
of WORM (write once, read many). Guidelines havework operations at low cost. Dynamic data rate is an
been established by the Government regulations likeinnovative technique which has been employed in the
the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Act of Health Insurancethis tape format.
Portability & Accountability and SEC Rule 17a-4The new technique of dynamic data rate enhances
on how much time period the data should be keptthe performance and durability of the LTO3 backup
secure, retained and remain unchanged. Thetape media. Its storage capacity also has been
businesses are looking forward to adopt moredoubled from that of LTO-2 tape format. 400
affordable tape storage technologies that are capablegigabytes is the native capacity of LTO 3 tape
of storing critical information for time span of tencartridge, and it can hold double the amount of
years or more, without any alterations. Thiscompressed data from its native capacity.
technology meets these requirements of theInformation on LTO2 tape media can be read by
organizations in cost efficient manner. The WORMLTO3 tape technology and data can also be written
functionality in this products have successfullyon to it. On the other hand, the LTO 3 tape is only
addressed the needs of its customers for long termcapable of reading information from the LTO-1 tape
and cost efficient data archiving. The specifications ofmedia. This new third generation LTO tape format
third generation includes co-existence of non-WORMprotects the users' investment. LTO is the only
and WORM enabled backup tape drive.technology whose base is an open specification. It
Implementation of LTO program has provided thealso supports data interchange. The specification of
organization with a highly durable and low cost meansLTO can be licensed by any manufacturer thus
of storing valuable information in non-erasable andproviding unique ability to the users to select from
non-alterable format.number of tape cartridge and drive offerings.
LTO 3 tape technology is the best cost effectiveCompetitive pricing, technological innovation and
choice for data archiving up to several decades. CMcompatible products' multiple sources are fostered by
(cartridge memory) is also included in this tapesuch pro-competitive environment. Stress on LTO
cartridge which is used by the robust algorithms. Theultrium media and drive is lowered by the "dynamic
specific design of cartridge memory helps indata rate" process which optimizes the performance
preventing tampering.and output level. In dynamic data rate, the tape
LTO3 tape format also supports the previouslydrive's speed is closely matched with transfer speed
written data which has been appended at the end ofof network or host server.