Tape Media

• Data cartridge storage density is quicker than disk, thus driving down cost/TB
• LTO 6 tape technology - Offers unmatched sturdiness and stores data for longer periods making it the perfect device for archiving
• 6.25 TB of compressed storage capacity, helps reduce quantities of cartridges and the amount of equipment, space and labor related to tape-based data storage
• Holds 2.50 TB of native storage capacity data to fulfill huge storage needs

• IBM 3592 cartridge - Satisfies enterprise data center's demands for data retention, security and availability within a small budget
• 30 TB of compressed storage capacity, helps reduce quantities of cartridges and the amount of equipment, space and labor related to tape-based data storage
• Store up to 10 TB of native storage capacity data per normal cartridge

LTO 5 Ultrium 3TB WORM Data Cartridge offers reliable data protection, ensuring full use of capacity and better ROI. Use only with LTO-5 Drives. HP LTO-5 Ultrium tape drive technology uses a linear format of 1,280 tracks, writing 16 tracks simultaneously, at a 280MB-per-second transfer rate. The data is written in a serpentine pattern. The tape reverses direction after each set of 16 tracks is written. Superior smart grabber mechanism and mechanical interlock prevent the leader pin from being pulled inside the tape housing (a key weakness of DLT media). Sensors detect proper connection and prevent leader loss that would ruin the tape. Rewritable LTO-5 cartridge also offers data encryption for enhanced data security and simplified tape path to reduce wear and tear. Metal particle cartridge has a compressed capacity of 3.0TB and recording density of 343 kbits per inch. Cartridge lasts 260 full tape backups.

• For use with LTO-5 Drives; recording density of 343 kbits per inch
• Uses a linear format of 1,280 tracks; writes 16 tracks simultaneously at a 280MB-per-second transfer rate
• Data is written in a serpentine pattern; tape reverses direction after each set of 16 tracks is written
• Smart grabber mechanism and mechanical interlock prevent leader pin from being pulled inside tape housing

Meeting the Needs of a Broad Market

WHY CHOOSE QUANTUM LTO ULTRIUM MEDIA

• Quantum's LTO Ultrium media is manufactured to the highest industry standards for quality and reliability ensuring high performance and durability, whether utilized for primary backup or long-term archive.
• A pioneer of the LTO Consortium, Quantum is committed to the continued development of the LTO platform. Quantum's comprehensive media quality monitoring and extensive interoperability testing ensures cross-platform compatibility, optimal performance, and reliability whether you're using a Quantum tape drive, library, or other LTO-compatible hardware.
• Quantum's LTO Ultrium media is compliant with all Media Integrity Analysis utilities. However, use Quantum LTO Ultrium media with Quantum's Advanced Media Usage Report and Extended Data Life Management (EDLM), and you add another level of protection throughout the lifecycle of your data. Media analysis and usage reports provide a view of the media condition for an entire media pool used within a specific tape library, even those in off-site storage. EDLM is a unique Scalar® automation feature designed to ensure the media integrity of cartridges placed in long-term archival or vaulted storage and are no longer used during normal operations. When your critical data is involved, it's important to have a complete health record of your media.
• LTO Ultrium WORM (Write Once, Read Many) media cartridges are available to meet today's stringent regulatory and compliance requirements. Combined with native AES 256-bit encryption on LTO-7, LTO-6, LTO-5, and LTO-4 drives, WORM cartridges physically prevent data from being overwritten or tampered with, providing a reliable, accurate, and scalable data integrity solution.
• Quantum's LTO media offering supports your comprehensive, "edge-to-core" backup, recovery, and archive strategy. When you use Quantum media and hardware, you get the added assurance of over 30 years of storage experience and service behind the entire solution.

QUANTUM OFFERS COMPLIMENTARY VALUE-ADDED SERVICES TO SAVE YOU TIME AND MONEY MANAGING YOUR MEDIA
Have you ever spent hours unpacking, labeling, and loading media into your library? Why waste IT resources unpacking boxes and labeling cartridges? Your time and your data are valuable. We understand that.

• Allow Quantum to pre-label your data cartridges with your requested bar code label sequences and color scheme. They will arrive ready to load into the library.

No need for individual cartridge cases? No problem! We offer "library packaging" to save you time!

• This eco-friendly bulk packaging option protects cartridges during shipment and storage without the individual cartridge cases. This allows quicker access to the cartridges to expedite loading into automation slots/trays-and it results in less waste.

Combine bar code labeling with library packaging and save even more time!

• This data cartridge is resilient to physical and electronic damage, allowing you to safely store data for years or even decades preventing media decay and corruption
• LTO 7 tape technology - Delivers over 15TB of compressed capacity and up to 400 MB/s data transfer rates
• 15 TB compressed storage capacity for long-term storage
• 6 TB native storage capacity, making it a perfect choice for specific backup and archive applications

Exhaustively tested, LTO-6 Ultrium cartridge meets all your demands for maximum reliability when restoring data, offering high storage density, ease of management and scalable storage and backup performance. Cartridge can write or read data at a blistering 1.4 TB per hour, storing, encrypting and protecting up to 3TB on a single cartridge, making it the big hitter in large-scale, 24x7, mission-critical IT environments. Memory chip delivers faster access time and enhanced media monitoring. Superior "smart grabber" mechanism and mechanical interlock prevent the leader pin from being pulled inside the tape housing. Sensors detect proper connection and prevent leader loss that would ruin the tape. LTO-6 Ultrium 6.25TB MP RW Data Cartridge also features data encryption for enhanced data security on and covers six generations of capacity: LTO-1 (200GB), LTO-2 (400GB), LTO-3 (800GB), LTO-4 (1.6TB), LTO-5 (3TB), and LTO-6 (6.25TB or up to 2,176 tracks).

• Cartridge can write or read data at 1.4 TB per hour
• Stores, encrypts and protects up to 3TB on a single cartridge
• "Smart grabber" mechanism and mechanical interlock prevent leader pin from being pulled inside tape housing
• Sensors detect proper connection and prevent leader loss
• Data encryption for enhanced data security; covers 6 generations of capacity

• Mammoth-2 tape technology - Reliable and cost-efficient tape backup solution for Small and Medium Business (SMB) market
• 50 GB compressed storage capacity - Easy-to-handle, compact and economical cartridges that ensure backup and future archiving for years
• Holds 20 GB of native storage capacity data to fulfill huge storage needs

• Great for large businesses as it lets you create physical copies of mission-critical tape backups easily
• LTO 6 tape technology - Offers unmatched sturdiness and stores data for longer periods making it the perfect device for archiving
• 6.25 TB of compressed storage capacity, helps reduce quantities of cartridges and the amount of equipment, space and labor related to tape-based data storage
• 2.50 TB native storage capacity for long-term storage

LTO 5 Ultrium 3TB WORM Data Cartridge offers reliable data protection, ensuring full use of capacity and better ROI. Use only with LTO-5 Drives. HP LTO-5 Ultrium tape drive technology uses a linear format of 1,280 tracks, writing 16 tracks simultaneously, at a 280MB-per-second transfer rate. The data is written in a serpentine pattern. The tape reverses direction after each set of 16 tracks is written. Superior smart grabber mechanism and mechanical interlock prevent the leader pin from being pulled inside the tape housing (a key weakness of DLT media). Sensors detect proper connection and prevent leader loss that would ruin the tape. Write-once LTO-5 cartridge also offers data encryption for enhanced data security and simplified tape path to reduce wear and tear. Metal particle cartridge has a compressed capacity of 3.0TB and recording density of 343 kbits per inch.

• For use with LTO-5 Drives; recording density of 343 kbits per inch
• Uses a linear format of 1,280 tracks; writes 16 tracks simultaneously at a 280MB-per-second transfer rate
• Data is written in a serpentine pattern; tape reverses direction after each set of 16 tracks is written
• Smart grabber mechanism and mechanical interlock prevent leader pin from being pulled inside tape housing

• LTO tape technology - Effectively preserves and protects crucial business data in the most stringent enterprise environments in a low budget, thus becoming the de-facto tape standard
• 32 TB of compressed storage capacity, helps reduce quantities of cartridges and the amount of equipment, space and labor related to tape-based data storage
• Store up to 12.80 TB of native storage capacity data per normal cartridge

What IBM LTO Ultrium 7 Data Cartridge does for your business

IBM LTO Ultrium 7 Data Cartridge offers more than double the storage capacity of previous generations for long-term data preservation that provides security as it sustains rapid, reliable access to data and helps ensure business resilience. Today's rapid data growth compounds the need for increased storage capacity. The seventh generation of LTO Ultrium tape media delivers 6 TB native capacity and up to 15 TB of compressed capacity for significantly greater efficiency and performance. This exceptional capacity helps reduce the number of cartridges and the amount of equipment, space and labor associated with tape-based data storage.

Ensure optimal data security

Leverage tape cartridge portability to facilitate remote, offline data storage for superior protection from natural or man-made threats that can impact online or on-site data storage.

Increase efficiency and performance

Leverage 6 TB native capacity and up to 15 TB of compressed capacity for significantly greater efficiency and performance, as well as reduced cartridge, equipment, space and labor requirements.

Enhance data access

Allow users and applications to directly retrieve files from tape rather than rely on third-party applications to enhance data access and potentially reduce software licensing costs and dependencies.

• Great for large businesses as it lets you create physical copies of mission-critical tape backups easily
• LTO 7 tape technology - Delivers over 15TB of compressed capacity and up to 400 MB/s data transfer rates
• 15 TB compressed storage capacity for long-term storage
• 6 TB native storage capacity, making it a perfect choice for specific backup and archive applications

• IBM 3592 cartridge - Satisfies enterprise data center's demands for data retention, security and availability within a small budget
• 30 TB compressed storage capacity - Easy-to-handle, compact and economical cartridges that ensure backup and future archiving for years
• 10 TB native storage capacity for long-term storage

• Great for large businesses as it lets you create physical copies of mission-critical tape backups easily
• IBM 3592 cartridge - Satisfies enterprise data center's demands for data retention, security and availability within a small budget
• 12 TB compressed storage capacity for long-term storage
• 4 TB native storage capacity, making it a perfect choice for specific backup and archive applications

• Cleaning cartridge - Essential solution to dirty heads guaranteeing an optimum recording signal with a considerably low error rate
• LTO tape technology - Effectively preserves and protects crucial business data in the most stringent enterprise environments in a low budget, thus becoming the de-facto tape standard

Quantum media cartridges are manufactured to the highest industry standards for quality and reliability, ensuring low error rates, high performance and long-term durability. Quantum media allows you to archive your data with confidence. The Quantum media family offers you more choices to better manage your data over time. Our LTO Ultrium tape format has been optimized for high capacity and performance with outstanding reliability, in either stand-alone or automated environments. The Quantum LTO Ultrium product line ranges from 200GB* to 6.25TB* capacity per cartridge, making it an ideal choice for capacity specific backup and archive applications.

• Data cartridge offers an oversized storage in a comparatively small physical package
• LTO 6 tape technology - Offers unmatched sturdiness and stores data for longer periods making it the perfect device for archiving
• 6.25 TB compressed storage capacity - Easy-to-handle, compact and economical cartridges that ensure backup and future archiving for years
• 2.50 TB native storage capacity, making it a perfect choice for specific backup and archive applications

What IBM LTO Ultrium 7 Data Cartridge does for your business

IBM LTO Ultrium 7 Data Cartridge offers more than double the storage capacity of previous generations for long-term data preservation that provides security as it sustains rapid, reliable access to data and helps ensure business resilience. Today's rapid data growth compounds the need for increased storage capacity. The seventh generation of LTO Ultrium tape media delivers 6 TB native capacity and up to 15 TB of compressed capacity for significantly greater efficiency and performance. This exceptional capacity helps reduce the number of cartridges and the amount of equipment, space and labor associated with tape-based data storage.

Ensure optimal data security

Leverage tape cartridge portability to facilitate remote, offline data storage for superior protection from natural or man-made threats that can impact online or on-site data storage.

Increase efficiency and performance

Leverage 6 TB native capacity and up to 15 TB of compressed capacity for significantly greater efficiency and performance, as well as reduced cartridge, equipment, space and labor requirements.

Enhance data access

Allow users and applications to directly retrieve files from tape rather than rely on third-party applications to enhance data access and potentially reduce software licensing costs and dependencies.

• Tape storage - Plays an important role in today's trendy data centers facing challenges with exponential data growth and restricted IT budgets
• LTO 7 tape technology - Delivers over 15TB of compressed capacity and up to 400 MB/s data transfer rates
• 15 TB of compressed storage capacity, helps reduce quantities of cartridges and the amount of equipment, space and labor related to tape-based data storage
• 6 TB native storage capacity, making it a perfect choice for specific backup and archive applications

Key Features

Reliable Offline Medium that Creates an Air Gap to Keep Data Out of the Reach of Cybercriminals

Agencies such as the US FBI recommend keeping data offline. This is because tapes that are stored offline are disconnected from the network and are out of reach of sophisticated criminals who use digital networks to strike at companies to encrypt both their primary data and their backups.

Built-in AES 256-bit encryption (LTO-5 to LTO-9) allows you to provide additional security for data stored on tape. With LTO encryption (strengthened by the option to use WORM cartridges), even if tapes were to fall into the wrong hands, your data would be protected from unauthorized access.

HPE LTO Ultrium cartridge memory chip delivers faster access time and enhanced media monitoring.

First time restore ensured with fewer media failures and disrupted backups, regardless of duty cycle or environmental conditions.

Lowest Total Cost of Ownership for Long-term Archiving

According to a white paper from ESG, 'The Economic Benefits of HPE StoreEver as Active Archival Storage', published in August 2020, LTO tape technology is over 80% less expensive across a 10-year period, than either all-disk or all-cloud solutions for a 1 PB archive growing at 10% per annum.

Standardizing on HPE LTO Ultrium delivers the capacity to meet shrinking backup windows, industry-standard, AES 256-bit encryption (IEEE1619.1), and interchangeable read-write (RW) or WORM media, without extra space or IT resource overhead.

Open standard technology helps ensure compatibility across product generations and gives you more choice. HPE LTO Ultrium cartridges are available as custom labeled or non-custom labeled.

HPE brand qualification test procedures (load/unload, shoeshine, drop testing and environmental stress testing) go far beyond what is required for the LTO Ultrium logo.This ensures maximum reliability for restoring your data.

HPE warrants LTO Ultrium cartridges for up to 30 years archival life. This ensures businesses can meet the ever-increasing demands of regulation for data retention and archiving.

Highest Capacity and Performance of any Comparable Tape Technology

HPE LTO-9 Ultrium data cartridges can write or read data at a blistering 3.6 TB/hour, storing, encrypting, and protecting up to 45 TB on a single cartridge, making it ideal for large-scale, 24x7, mission-critical IT environments (capacity assumes 2.5:1 compression).

A 35% increase in the number of tracks and a 3% increase in bit density has permitted a capacity increase from 30 TB for LTO-8 to 45 TB for LTO-9. From 2,176 tracks for LTO-6 to 8,960 tracks for 9th generation HPE LTO-9 Ultrium 45 TB cartridges (assuming 2.5:1 compression) - an improvement of 311%

• Faster back up and disaster recovery of applications supporting active archive, compliance, data preservation, scale-out NAS, cloud storage, and huge data
• LTO-9 tape technology - Reliable and cost-efficient tape backup solution for Small and Medium Business (SMB) market
• Ideal for entry-level servers requiring 45 TB compressed storage capacity of data backup
• 18 TB native storage capacity for long-term storage

IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Cartridges 3592 are designed to work with the first-generation IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive 3592 Model J1A (3592 J1A tape drive) and the second-generation IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Drive (TS1120 Tape Drive). Cartridges are available in two lengths and in either re-writeable or Write Once, Read Many (WORM) formats. The short length 3592 JJ/JR cartridges provide rapid access to data and the standard length 3592 JA/JW cartridges provide high capacity.

• Data cartridge storage density is quicker than disk, thus driving down cost/TB
• IBM 3592 cartridge - Satisfies enterprise data center's demands for data retention, security and availability within a small budget
• 600 GB compressed storage capacity for long-term storage
• 300 GB native storage capacity, making it a perfect choice for specific backup and archive applications

• LTO 6 tape technology - Offers unmatched sturdiness and stores data for longer periods making it the perfect device for archiving
• Ideal for entry-level servers requiring 6.25 TB compressed storage capacity of data backup
• 2.50 TB of native storage capacity - Simplest solution to keep vast databases and intensely large volumes of digital data

Meeting the Needs of a Broad Market

WHY CHOOSE QUANTUM LTO ULTRIUM MEDIA

• Quantum's LTO Ultrium media is manufactured to the highest industry standards for quality and reliability ensuring high performance and durability, whether utilized for primary backup or long-term archive.
• A pioneer of the LTO Consortium, Quantum is committed to the continued development of the LTO platform. Quantum's comprehensive media quality monitoring and extensive interoperability testing ensures cross-platform compatibility, optimal performance, and reliability whether you're using a Quantum tape drive, library, or other LTO-compatible hardware.
• Quantum's LTO Ultrium media is compliant with all Media Integrity Analysis utilities. However, use Quantum LTO Ultrium media with Quantum's Advanced Media Usage Report and Extended Data Life Management (EDLM), and you add another level of protection throughout the lifecycle of your data. Media analysis and usage reports provide a view of the media condition for an entire media pool used within a specific tape library, even those in off-site storage. EDLM is a unique Scalar® automation feature designed to ensure the media integrity of cartridges placed in long-term archival or vaulted storage and are no longer used during normal operations. When your critical data is involved, it's important to have a complete health record of your media.
• LTO Ultrium WORM (Write Once, Read Many) media cartridges are available to meet today's stringent regulatory and compliance requirements. Combined with native AES 256-bit encryption on LTO-7, LTO-6, LTO-5, and LTO-4 drives, WORM cartridges physically prevent data from being overwritten or tampered with, providing a reliable, accurate, and scalable data integrity solution.
• Quantum's LTO media offering supports your comprehensive, "edge-to-core" backup, recovery, and archive strategy. When you use Quantum media and hardware, you get the added assurance of over 30 years of storage experience and service behind the entire solution.

QUANTUM OFFERS COMPLIMENTARY VALUE-ADDED SERVICES TO SAVE YOU TIME AND MONEY MANAGING YOUR MEDIA
Have you ever spent hours unpacking, labeling, and loading media into your library? Why waste IT resources unpacking boxes and labeling cartridges? Your time and your data are valuable. We understand that.

• Allow Quantum to pre-label your data cartridges with your requested bar code label sequences and color scheme. They will arrive ready to load into the library.

No need for individual cartridge cases? No problem! We offer "library packaging" to save you time!

• This eco-friendly bulk packaging option protects cartridges during shipment and storage without the individual cartridge cases. This allows quicker access to the cartridges to expedite loading into automation slots/trays-and it results in less waste.

Combine bar code labeling with library packaging and save even more time!

• Faster back up and disaster recovery of applications supporting active archive, compliance, data preservation, scale-out NAS, cloud storage, and huge data
• LTO 7 tape technology - Delivers over 15TB of compressed capacity and up to 400 MB/s data transfer rates
• Ideal for entry-level servers requiring 15 TB compressed storage capacity of data backup
• Store up to 6 TB of native storage capacity data per normal cartridge

With HP Custom Labeled Media, you no longer have to label your own cartridges, saving you time and the risk of retrieval errors. For no extra charge, cartridges can be supplied with barcode labels bearing your own specified sequences. HP rigorously tests its precision-engineered, high-resolution barcode labels using software unique to the HP Automation Group to evaluate and warrant the performance of its labels. These labels are professionally applied in a clean environment to ensure 100% readability accurate storage and retrieval in busy, automated tape libraries. Custom labeled cartridges ensure 100% label readability and can be ordered online in packs of 20. For those customers who value the added security that RFID adds, customers have the option to integrate it into each label at minimal cost. The RFID tag is embedded into the back of the customized label and offers tracking, audit and security advantages for those with IT asset tracking systems.

• LTO 6 tape technology - Offers unmatched sturdiness and stores data for longer periods making it the perfect device for archiving
• 6.25 TB compressed storage capacity - Easy-to-handle, compact and economical cartridges that ensure backup and future archiving for years
• Store up to 2.50 TB of native storage capacity data per normal cartridge

• Great for large businesses as it lets you create physical copies of mission-critical tape backups easily
• IBM 3592 cartridge - Satisfies enterprise data center's demands for data retention, security and availability within a small budget
• 1.50 TB of compressed storage capacity, helps reduce quantities of cartridges and the amount of equipment, space and labor related to tape-based data storage
• Store up to 500 GB of native storage capacity data per normal cartridge

• Great for large businesses as it lets you create physical copies of mission-critical tape backups easily
• LTO 7 tape technology - Delivers over 15TB of compressed capacity and up to 400 MB/s data transfer rates
• 15 TB compressed storage capacity - Easy-to-handle, compact and economical cartridges that ensure backup and future archiving for years
• Store up to 6 TB of native storage capacity data per normal cartridge

• IBM 3592 cartridge - Satisfies enterprise data center's demands for data retention, security and availability within a small budget
• 180 GB compressed storage capacity - Easy-to-handle, compact and economical cartridges that ensure backup and future archiving for years
• Store up to 60 GB of native storage capacity data per normal cartridge