LTO stands for Linear Tape-Open

LTO stands for Linear Tape-Open. it is a magnetic tape data storage technology developed as an open alternative to the proprietary Digital Linear Tape . The technology was developed and initiated by Seagate, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM. The standard form-factor of LTO technology goes by the name "Ultrium".

In the late 1990s, Quantum's DLT and Sony's Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) were the leading options for high-capacity, high speed tape storage for PC servers and UNIX systems. Those technologies were and still are tightly controlled by their owners. Consequently, their availability was fairly limited. IBM, HP and Seagate sought to counter this by introducing a more open format. Much of the technology is an extension of the work done by IBM at its Tucson lab during the previous 20 year

We can find the following products of the LTO tapes

LTO-1 Tapes LTO-2 Tapes LTO-3 Tapes LTO-4 Tapes Baba Certified LTO Media Baba Certified LTO-2 LTO Barcode Labels

• LTO-1 Tapes

The Originally designed to come in 4 lengths of tape: 10, 30, 50, and 100 GB. Tape encoding is RLL 1,7 .First commercially available in September 2000.

• LTO-2 Tapes

The Doubled capacity and transfer speed Switched to PRML encoding First mechanisms approved in February 2003.First media approved in March 2003.

• LTO-3 Tapes

The Doubled capacity and transfer speed again Introduced WORM feature .Doubled number of write elements in head First media approved in November 2004.

• LTO-4 Tapes

He Doubled capacity again to 800 GB. Added 256-bit AES-GCM drive level encryption. Increase data transfer rate by 50% to 120 MB/s. First mechanisms approved in April 2007

The AIT tapes

AIT tapes are now one of the well know backup media in the world. it is widely use in the most part of the world and the USA is one of them

The AIT backup tapes are made to store data efficiently and in large quantities. The SCSI technology that AIT backup tapes incorporate help to maximize data transfer to and from the host system at a burst rate of 160 MB/sec. Data can be transferred from the AIT data tapes at a data transfer rate of 24 MB/sec and with a capacity of a minimum of 50 GB going up to 1040 GB for AIT-5 Tapes makes AIT tapes a great solution for data backup..

The AIT tapes have the following types

· AIT-1 Tapes

· AIT-2 Turbo Tapes

· AIT-3 Tapes

· AIT-4 Tapes

· AIT-5 Tapes

· AIT-E Turbo Tapes

· AIT Barcode Labels

· AIT-2 Tapes

· Baba Certified AIT Media

One of the most compelling features of the AIT format is that many generations are both backwards and forwards compatible. This allows multiple generations of tape drives to both read and write to multiple generations of tape media. For more information you can see the

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the LTO tape

value of your data more then the hardware and we know that when we loss over data and that’s why the Backing up data has become golden rule in the computer world. We need to backup data once in a day to avoid panics at the time of data loss. Data backups, hard drive backups, email backups prove beneficial when you lose some important data.

In such case you can trust the backed up data! But how can we create backup of over data and what hardware can we use to have backup on that is reliable and easy to use. Capabilities such as dynamic rate matching and dual mode compression enhance tape drive performance and product life.

the Released in 2007, LTO-4 tapes have a native capacity of 800 GB which can go up to 1.6 TB worth if compressed (2:1). The data transfer rate has gone up to 120 MB/s and a 256 bit AES-GCM drive level encryption has been added. LTO 4 Ultrium also features backward compatibility with LTO-2 and LTO-3 drives. Another advantage of using LTO tapes is that future versions are the development so there will be a chance to update your system instead of it being phased out of use. Multiple sources for LTO media and drives reduce production bottlenecks and also ensure investment protection for OEMs and end users alike. Related products available at Tape4Backup are: LTO 1, LTO 2, LTO 3, LTO Cleaning Cartridge, LTO Barcode Labels, LTO Empty Cases and LTO Cartridge Memory Reader.

Backup tape users are increasingly sensitive to data security in the wake of high profile data loss incidents, and encryption techniques have appeared to help ensure security. For example, if an unencrypted tape is lost or stolen, its data is at risk. But, if an encrypted tape is lost or stolen, its data is still considered to be secure. Thus, the use of encryption has a profound effect on corporate liability and reporting obligations.
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Tapes Technology

New high-end and midrange tape products are coming, with a focus on security and reliability. Baba Direct, with financial customers as one target audience, is now shipping WORM (write-once, read-many) technology in AIT devices.Meanwhile, Imation Corp. has improved its capacity and signal-to-noise ratio in LTO units. The developments follow recent overall format upgrades of both Advanced Intelligent Tape and Linear Tape-Open.Baba Direct put the WORM firmware in its AIT-3 media and drives, both from Sony Electronics Inc., in San Francisco, California. It's also in the library software. "Probably we will go back and certify AIT-2 as well, within the next three to four months," said Eddi Hassan, a Baba Direct productmanager, in Berkeley, California. Shipping now, the new tapes cost $115, versus $100 for the non-WORM models, he said.
Baba Direct doesn't provide any tools for users to migrate data from the old tapes to the new, but does offer professional services for such tasks, he said. For its part, Imation Corp.'s second-generation LTO media will ship next month, said Eddy, director of Baba Direct. The new tapes hold 200GB of data transferred at up to 40GBps, with double of those specifications if the data is compressed. The tapes have a slightly improved signal-to-noise ratio of 26:1, measured in decibels, versus 25:1 in the first-generation units, Eddy said. They also have 512Kb per inch, versus 384Kbpi in the older version, he said. Pricing for the new tapes, called Black Watch Ultrium, has not yet been set but is expected to be slightly higher than the former version, which currently cost about $70 each, Eddy said. Baba Direct

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New high-end and midrange tape products are coming, with a focus on security and reliability.

Baba Direct, with financial customers as one target audience, is now shipping WORM (write-once, read-many) technology in AIT devices. Meanwhile, Imation Corp. has improved its capacity and signal-to-noise ratio in LTO units.
The developments follow recent overall format upgrades of both Advanced Intelligent Tape and Linear Tape-Open.
Baba Direct put the WORM firmware in its AIT-3 media and drives, both from Sony Electronics Inc., in San Francisco, California. It's also in the library software. "Probably we will go back and certify AIT-2 as well, within the next three to four months," said Eddi Hassan, a Baba Direct product manager, in Berkeley, California. Shipping now, the new tapes cost $115, versus $100 for the non-WORM models, he said.
Baba Direct doesn't provide any tools for users to migrate data from the old tapes to the new, but does offer professional services for such tasks, he said.
For its part, Imation Corp.'s second-generation LTO media will ship next month, said Eddy, director of Baba Direct. The new tapes hold 200GB of data transferred at up to 40GBps, with double of those specifications if the data is compressed. The tapes have a slightly improved signal-to-noise ratio of 26:1, measured in decibels, versus 25:1 in the first-generation units, Eddy said. They also have 512Kb per inch, versus 384Kbpi in the older version, he said.
Pricing for the new tapes, called Black Watch Ultrium, has not yet been set but is expected to be slightly higher than the former version, which currently cost about $70 each, Eddy said.


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