subject: Lto 4 Tape Technology Offers Increased Recording Capability And Economical Solutions [print this page] These days the I.T managers usually face the task of backing up massive amounts of information within backup windows. LTO3 tape is the most reliable and cost efficient medium for long term storage of your precious and critical data. LTO-4 tape technology has double the recording capacity than its predecessor LTO-3 media. The recording performance and advantages of LTO-4 ultrium technology are simply unparalleled. LTO-4 and LTO-3 tape formats deliver high class performance and cost efficient solutions in all demanding environments.
LTO4 tape format features advanced technologies and compelling attributes that are demanded by the modern data intensive environments. Native 400GB capacity found in the ultrium-3 tape standard has been raised by 100% in the next LTO4 tape format. This means that the LTO-4 tape cartridge can backup up to 800 Gigabytes of precious information. Transfer speed of the 4th generation ultrium tape has been doubled to 120 Mb/sec which was 80 Mb/s in the ultrium-3 tape technology. LTO-4 tape format adds more to its advantages and uniqueness by offering the AES-GCM encryption mechanism which helps the users to secure their recorded data at lowest cost. Both the LTO-3 and the LTO4 tape formats offer the advantageous and cost saving feature of backward compatibility. Therefore this feature enables the IT managers to restore information that was backed up in the LTO media tapes of prior generation. The LTO-4 tape drives can read data from the ultrium-2 tapes but cannot record data on to them. On the other hand they can read and write information to the ultrium-3 tapes.
Data throughput and performance level of the LTO-4 tape drives have been enhanced to deliver 50 percent faster transfer speed than the LTO-3 media technology. Encryption technology is the most reliable, economical and compelling of LTO-4 tape that has forced the enterprises to adopt the LTO-4 media tape standard. WORM is another very reliable mechanism available in both the LTO-4 and LTO3 ultrium tape technologies. The six generation roadmap of LTO ultrium format is well defined and specifically designed for growth, high performance, superior compatibility and scalability.
LTO-3 is a powerful and highly durable storage format that addresses the increasing demands and needs of the modern age enterprises in a cost efficient manner. It is the ideal tape technology which serves with its increased media durability and high cost efficient results in the server and enterprises class backup environments. LTO-3 data tapes provide industry leading performance with high speed recording capability and massive recording capacity. Data can be interchanged among the different versions of LTO tape media as they are backward compatible. LTO ultrium 3 is the ideal backup storage technology that protects the investment in enterprise environments. The modern enterprises and SMBs are seeking more economical, powerful and high capacity tape technologies that offer high density recording at a fast rate with low error rate. LTO-3 and the 4th generation LTO-4 ultrium meet all these requirements of the businesses and secure their valuable data and prevent data loss.
