LTO-5 Ultrium Tape Media

LTO-5 tape has arrived, bringing larger capacity and faster transfer rates for organizations relying on tape for their backups.

LTO-5 cartridges have twice the capacity of LTO-4 tape, holding 1.5 TB native and 3 TB compressed data. The data transfer rate increases from 120 MBps to 140 MBps native, and 240 MBps to 280 MBps compressed. LTO-5 carries over LTO-4 features such as hardware encryption and adds a partitioning functionality that lets applications index data on tape to make it easier to access. Accelerated growth: Improved business performance through faster data backup and retrieval, Reduced Storage hardware costs with 52 percent lower dollar per gigabyte (GB) compared with previous generations and greater return on technology investments by easily integrating into existing environments to meet higher capacity or performance.  Improved Manageability: Improved operational efficiency, simplified data backup and recovery and lower operational costs through increased capacity thus reducing the amount of media, time and human intervention required for daily tape backup.  Enterprise Reliability: Improved security of both idle and data in transit through hardware based encryption, enhancing data reliability, and improving tape media deterioration by optimizing data movement.