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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136586/Imation_announces_multi_terabyte_tape_cartridges
IMATION’s NEW LTO-5 , MULTI-TERABYTE TAPE CARTRIDGES
LTO-5 cartridges offer twice the capacity of LTO-4
Imation
Corp. today announced it expects to be the first vendor to market with
a line of multi-terabyte tape cartridges that can store up to 1.6TB of
data in its native format or 3.2TB of data when it’s compressed.The
Linear Tape Open, or LTO-5, format tapes offer double the 800GB
capacity of the previous LTO-4 cartridge format.Imation is the first company to license the Ultrium LTO-5 tape media.
“Imation
is excited to announce this important industry milestone – the
achievement of multiple terabytes of native capacity on a single MP
tape cartridge,” Subodh Kulkarni, vice president of Imation’s Research,
Development, and Engineering, said in a statement. “LTO-5 tape
technology offers a cost-efficient way for businesses to store
ever-expanding data.”LTO-5 offers a 160MB/sec native data transfer rate
and compressed data transfer rate of up to 360MB/sec. Imation’s Ultrium
LTO-5 cartridges also use a technology called TeraAngstrom to create
magnetic media with a smooth surface and a high signal-to-noise ratio
for reduced errors and faster transfer rates.Imation expects to launch
LTO-5 tape cartridges in early 2010, saying it will include improved
encryption capabilities for security of backup and archive data.
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