IBM 46X1290 LTO Ultrium-5 Data Cartridge

Description

IBM LTO-5 data cartridge has been designed to deliver exceptional storage capacity and reliability at a lower cost per GB compare to other types of storage medium. With explosive growth in data, many organizations are struggling to manage, protect, mitigate risk, and maintain fast growing data while ensuring compliance with industry regulations. IBM LTO-5 Tape capacity of up to 3 TB (at 2:1 compression) helps reduce the number of cartridges and the amount of equipment, space and physical activity related to tape-based storage. In addition, it helps reduce the time related to backup and restore job by reducing the amount of cartridge handling, further reduce operational costs.

IBM LTO-5 Data Cartridge, IBM continues to focus on providing high quality, high-reliability tape technology for your business. you can further protect data by using this high capacity tapes with LTO 5 encryption enabled drives. These tapes continue to be part of a long line of IBM tape media designed to improve data integrity for your organizations around the world.

IBM LTO-5 data cartridge designed to help improve read/write reliability by storing IBM’s statistical media read/write analysis on every use of the cartridge when used with IBM LTO tape drives.

 Prior to the release of LTO-5, previous versions IBM LTO 4 taps only went up to 800 GB. IBM LTO-5 was the first Ultrium version released by the LTO Consortium with more than a terabyte of native capacity. Also IBM LTO-5 tape is first version to enable partitioning, which reserves a portion of the tape for indexing to tell the drive where a particular file is stored in the tape.

IBM 46X1290 LTO Ultrium-5 Data Cartridge Specifications