Imation LTO Ultrium generation 4
tape cartridges feature innovative and patented technologies that make Imation's LTO cartridges more robust than competitive offerings.
Longitudinal recording media have a fixed number of parallel tracks (e.g., 18 tracks for 3480
tape cartridges) laid across the length of the tape that are written to or read from the beginning of the tape to its end.
The proposed magnetic
tape cartridge will meet this requirement in a "shirt pocket" size by providing longer and higher coercivity tape than has been available previously.
Removable data storage products supplier Imation Corp (NYSE:IMN) announced on Friday it will begin shipping its Imation LTO Ultrium Generation 5
tape cartridges.
The future of tape storage is rapidly heading toward multi-terabyte
tape cartridges. To achieve this, data track widths below 10 um and closed loop tracking of under 100 nm will be required.
The Scalar 24 offer's one or two SLDT 600 drives and 21
tape cartridges.
New disk-based products in this segment have difficulty competing with the sheer low cost of a shelved
tape cartridge. However, a company may be liable for the reproduction of historical data and tape offers no certainty of data restorability or integrity.
Storing up to 1.3 TB of compressed data (500 GB uncompressed) on a single half-inch
tape cartridge, the high-capacity SAIT-1 drive combines the data density advantages of helical-scan recording with the longer and wider tape usually associated with linear tape drives.
Together, the library offerings give users a range of from 1 to 400 drives and from 24 to more than 50,000 LTO
tape cartridges. With LTO-2 technology, each library doubles its capacity to 400 GB per
tape cartridge and more than doubles its data transfer rates to 70 MB per second per drive.(a)
$120 or $0.75 per GB, a
tape cartridge with the native 160GB capacity sells for $40 or $0.25 per GB and using 2:1 compression is $0.125 per GB.
IBM has announced that it has recorded 1 terabyte (TB) of data to a linear digital
tape cartridge, storing nearly 10 times more data than any linear
tape cartridge currently available.
Based on technology licensed from Quantum Corp the DLT1 tape drive offers 80Gb of compressed capacity and a 6Mb/s compressed transfer rate enabling small to medium sized storage servers or workstations to be backed up on one single
tape cartridge. The system is backward read-compatible with the company's DLT4000 product and utilises DLTtape IV media.