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Fujifilm Begins LTO-5 Media Production
Using its
Nanocubic thin-film coating process
FUJIFILM announced it will
be one of the first manufacturers in the world to be
certified by the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Technology
Provider Companies (TPCs) as successfully completing
compliance testing. Fujifilm plans to immediately begin
mass production of LTO Ultrium Generation 5 data
cartridges. The Fujifilm LTO Ultrium Generation 5
cartridges are available worldwide immediately,
and offer a native storage capacity of 1.5 terabytes and
native transfer rates up to 140 megabytes per second.
"The advances that
Fujifilm has made in its proprietary NANOCUBIC
technology have enabled us to achieve a higher recording
density with increased reliability," said Norio
Shibata, President & CEO, Fujifilm Recording Media USA,
Inc. "As the need for
more capacity continues to steadily increase this latest
generation tape will handle more data while
simultaneously reducing the risk of loss of information."
Fujifilm LTO Ultrium Generation 5 data cartridges will
incorporate Fujifilm's advanced NANOCUBIC thin-film
coating process with finer metal particles (78% of
previous generation Ultrium data cartridges) and nano-dispersion
technology with a new binder system, which allows
Fujifilm to achieve higher recording density.
"The advances that we
have made to our technology will go a long way toward
meeting the rapidly increasing demands that our
customers have for long term file storage and data
management," said Peter Faulhaber, Senior Vice
President Sales & Marketing, FUJIFILM Recording Media
U.S.A., Inc. "The
escalating volume of data coupled with the rising
concerns over security and need for rapid retrieval lead
us to believe that this next generation technology will
be very well received in the marketplace."
In addition, Fujifilm has introduced a new reel
design that has successfully achieved both
running stability in the drive and high archival
stability. This is a feature that is particularly
important for users because as the tape length gets
longer, the pressure on the hub can increase and there
is a potential risk of hub deformation. The new design
of the hub structure reduces unexpected deformation to
the tape's characteristics, such as tape edge damage
while the smoother, more uniform magnetic layer results
in a significant decrease in tape surface defects.
As part of Fujifilm's overall commitment to develop
environmentally sustainable products, Fujifilm's LTO
Ultrium 5 cartridge offers a reduction on its impact on
the environment by eliminating brominated flame
retardants (BFRs) from all the mechanical parts of
Fujifilm LTO 5 cartridges. Tape is already viewed by
many in the data storage industry to have less of an
impact on the environment than other storage options
because it consumes less energy.
LTO technology is a powerful, scalable, adaptable open
tape format developed and enhanced by TPCs: HP, IBM and
Quantum to help address the growing demands of data
protection in the midrange to enterprise-class server
environments.
"LTO Ultrium Generation 5
introduces a new dual partitioning functionality. This
feature can enable capabilities to enhance file
management on LTO tape and unlock LTO tape's potential
for exciting new use cases for the growing storage needs
of market segments with rich media such as media and
entertainment, digital surveillance, and medical,"
said Ed Childers, Manager, Tape Development, IBM.
LTO Generation 5 hardware will be backward write
compatible with LTO Ultrium 4 data cartridges and
backward read compatible with LTO Ultrium 3 data
cartridges. As with the previous generation, LTO Ultrium
5 hardware will incorporate the Advanced Encryption
Standard (AES) 256-bit encryption algorithms to help
keep data secure. This feature offers another level of
security during storage and transporting of sensitive
information and compliments the WORM (Write-Once,
Read-Many) capability. WORM functionality first debuted
in LTO Ultrium 3 data cartridges, providing a
cost-effective means for storing data in a
non-rewriteable format to help address compliance
requirements.
The TPCs provide very stringent format specifications
for both cartridge and drive manufacturers. This helps
insure the consistency for maintaining tape format
interchangeability. Compliance testing is completed
through a unique format verification program which is
independently administered and executed by a third party
organization, and approved by the TPCs.
About NANOCUBIC
Already recognized by the industry as an
enterprise-class tape solution, Fujifilm NANOCUBIC
technology combines nano-scale particles, a unique
dual-coating process and advanced dispersion techniques
to achieve an ultra-thin magnetic layer that produces
higher resolution for recording digital data, ultra-low
noise and high signal-to-noise ratios that are ideal for
Magneto-Resistive and Giant Magneto-Resistive heads.
Fujifilm's future-generation tape storage media will
apply NANOCUBIC technology to barium-ferrite particles,
a naturally stable crystalline particle that does not
corrode or change chemically over time, making it an
optimal particle for data storage applications. Due to
the crystalline anisotropy, the ultra-fine
barium-ferrite particles have high coercivity for
superior performance high density recording. The unique
Fujifilm NANOCUBIC technology coats the barium-ferrite
particles in a very uniform manner (with thickness
variation of less than 10 percent across the length of
the tape), resulting in a much smoother magnetic surface
to significantly enhance performance.
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