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.
Reprinted with permission from Computerworld. Story copyright 2009 Computerworld Inc. All rights reserved.
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