Monday, February 7, 2011

LTO 5 Tapes Arrive on The Scene

We have been using LTO Tapes for back-up for years now and what we enjoy the most about the technology is it has grown with our business. It is a simple tape drive that we change on a daily basis to continuously back up our data in case of a catastrophic hardware failure. The LTO tape drive back up system is simple and easy to use, we simply change the tape, the drive required some initial set-up but it was not overwhelming. Our LTO back-up system it gives us peace of mind to knowing all of our data is secure.

Linear Tape-Open (or LTO) is a magnetic data tape storage technology originally developed in the late 1990s as an open standards alternative to the proprietary magnetic tape formats that were available at the time. LTO 5 is the Tape Backup industries newest addition, it boasts an incredible 1.5 TB capacity almost double the LTO-4 capacity. It is also fast with an uncompressed transfer rate of 140 MBps!!! Data storage and security is a high priority for a company of any size.

Tape is a low cost secure way to store ad manage your data archives. Tapes are also portable, making them great for secure offsite back-up, offline backup, disaster recovery, data compliance and long-term archiving. LTO-5 tape solutions can trim costs even further. With hardware-based encryption, it can store up to 3 TB of data on a single cartridge in less than three hours. All the major manufacturers are rolling out new tape library drives that utilize the latest in archiving and robotic technology.Source

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