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We supply a broad range of LTO tapes from the world's largest tape manufacturers.
The LTO tape technology was developed jointly by HPE, IBM and Certance (Seagate) who sold their business to Quantum. This provides a clear and viable choice in an increasingly complex array of tape storage options with no single manufacturing source.
LTO tapes provides a robust, highly convenient and very cost effective way of storing data.
LTO technology is an "open tape format" technology, which means that users will have multiple sources of product and tape media. The "open" nature of LTO technology also provides a means of enabling compatibility between different vendors' offerings.
LTO tapes are manufactured by a variety of media vendors and are readily available. LTO Ultrium tape was available in various formats LTO-1 through to LTO 9 the latest LTO generation and has a native capacity of 18TB.
LTO 9 WORM media are suitable for archival purposes and have WORM functionality. Another feature of LTO 9 tape is the ability to be partitioned to allow different drives/systems to see different parts of the tapes. With a huge installed base of LTO Ultrium tape products going back 10 years. Ensures that LTO tape will continue to be the first choice for any company wishing to backup data.
LTO 9 tape has a native capacity of 18TB's (45TB compressed) and has a native transfer rate of 400MB/s (1000MB/s compressed).
This is a link to the companies who have licensed LTO technology.
We also provide LTO tape labels printed with a bar-code for most of the popular brands of tape libraries. Just provide the library model and the number sequence you need and we'll do the rest.
If you would like us to quote for any LTO products, please call us on 01256 331416 or complete our form and we will respond immediately.
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