LTO Tape Drives

When LTO tape drives were first developed there were two formats available: Accelis for high speed and Ultrium for high capacity. As the speed of the Ultrium format grew, the demand for Accelis dropped and that format has been discontinued. In today's marketplace, LTO and Ultrium have become interchangeable. The Baba Direct is you primary provider of AIT Tape, Sony LTO Ultrium, Green Products, 4MM Tapes, 8MM Tapes, DLT Tapes, DVD/CDR, Enterprise Tapes, LTO Tapes, Optical Cartridges, QIC Tapes, SDLT Tapes, SLR / MLR Tapes, Tape Library, Tape Storage Cases, VXA Tapes, Zip Drives, 10000 Tapes, Flash Drive, Storage Devices and Hard Drive. We have the Linear Tape Open format that supports portability, superior performance, data security and large capacity to hold the data. The LTO technology, which will backup from 200 Gbytes to 800 Gbytes of data, will come in two implementations: the Ultrium single reel line and the Accelis dual reel line, said Robert Hill, Information Storage Group sales and marketing manager for Hewlett Packard. The LTO ultrium tape cartridge saves cost and energy in data archiving for longer periods of time. The LTO-5 tape format will have more transfer speed and physical storage capacity than that of the LTO generation 4. The LTO5 will also have the encryption mechanism of hardware based and the WORM functionality to address the compliance requirements and data security.

The Ultrium will offer a single reel 200 Gbyte capacity system at 20 to 40 Mbps (Megabytes per second) transfer rate. The Accelis line will be a dual reel offering with 50 Gbyte capacity in under 10 second data retrieval rates. Hill spoke about the technology, which is being developed in conjunction with IBM Corp. and Seagate Technology Inc., at a press briefing here. That capability doesn't come cheap. The price of an LTO tapes, drive is out of reach of a home user or small business, and the cost of a tape library can run well into the five-figure range, but LTO tapes is overkill for those markets anyhow. This technology is aimed squarely at the highest capacity backup needs, the large enterprise LAN. For that target customer, LTO is probably the best choice of competing technologies and now at u can find at http://www.babadirect.com and http://www.datamediaexperts.com in the affordable price.