Full Height LTO-10: The Facts!
- New Drive Design (ASIC, Drive Head, Loading Mechanism)
- 30 TB Native / 75 TB Compressed
- New Media Formula - Strontium Ferrite (SrFe₁₂O₁₉)
- Media Color is Black
- 400MB/Sec Native Performance
- No Requirement for Media Optimization / Calibration (Characterization)
- No Backwards Compatibility!
- The new drive head design and media formula required to
increase the capacity of a cartridge to 30 TB has meant that
backwards compatibility is not possible.
- The message to customer is that the technology had at some
stage to “jump track” to drive capacity in future generations
- FULL HEIGHT - Remember this rollout is Full Height
Drives only at the moment. We still have no indication on the LTO-10
Half-Height Drive availability but speculate at least another year out.
Contact your BackupWorks Account Rep today and
ask about LTO-10 for your Backup and Archive Environment.