Magnetic tapes are still the major backup mediums used by many businesses. Therefore, there is a need to keep increasing the storage capacity of magnetic tapes in order to cope with the increasing amount of data. Imation has announced their new magnetic tape, Imation LTO Ultrium Generation 5 tape which comes with native storage capacity of 1.5 terabytes.
When works in compressed mode, you can even have it to store up 3TB of data. The new Imation tapes can write data at up to 280MB/sec and supports data encryption. It even supports hardware encryption to protect more sensitive data and is compatible with write once read many functionality.
Other goodies include the use of TeraAngstron tech for smooth surface to reduce errors and the tape spool is three pieces which can more evenly distribute stress over its surface.
via slashgear
March 22nd, 2010 at 10:22 am
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