Maxell Ships LTO Ultrium 5 Data Cartridge
Maxell Corporation of America (www.maxell-usa.com) announces the availability of its LTO Ultrium 5 data cartridge. Designed to meet the growing demand for reliable storage and back-up of digital information, the LTO 5 data cartridge offers a maximum storage capacity of 3 terabytes (TB)*, with Write Once, Read Many (WORM) functionality, making it a cost-efficient archival media solution for a variety of professional broadcast and video applications.
"We continually look to provide our customers with the latest technologies in archival media," said Pat Byrne, senior marketing manager for Maxell. "Adding LTO Ultrium 5 to our product line allows us to meet the needs of our customers who constantly rely on Maxell for high-quality, innovative products. LTO Ultrium 5 specifically addresses customers with increasing archival and storage needs at an incredible value."
With a compressed transfer rate of up to 280MB/sec* and maximum storage capacity of up to 3TB*, Maxell's Ultrium 5 is the fifth generation in the LTO Ultrium product line. Providing nearly double the capacity of the previous generation, LTO Ultrium 5 data cartridges are backward compatible with earlier generations, including read-and write capability with Ultrium 4 cartridges, and read capabilities with Ultrium 3 cartridges. The Maxell LTO Ultrium 5 data cartridge may be used in all Ultrium 5 drives.
Featuring encryption capabilities designed to enable hardware-based writing of encrypted data to the LTO Ultrium data cartridge, the LTO Ultrium 5 format helps protect the storage and transport of important footage. The LTO Ultrium 5 format also features WORM functionality.
Maxell is one of the manufacturers to complete the LTO Ultrium 5 data cartridge compliance verification process, which includes an exhaustive series of tests to confirm interchange compatibility with other drives and media. Upon completion of the tests, users of Maxell LTO Ultrium products can be 100% confident of compatibility and interchangeability between Maxell LTO Ultrium media and all brands of Ultrium drives and media.
Main features of Maxell LTO Ultrium 5 data cartridges
- Maxell NeoSMART (Super Maximum-capacity Advanced Reliability Tape) technology
- Ultra-fine, ceramic-armored metal particles with high energy and superior recording performance provide protection against corrosion for product's life and superior durability
- Extremely accurate servo writing technologies ensure stable servo characteristics and superior tracking reliability, corresponding to increased data track density.
- Uniform, ultra-thin and sub-micron magnetic coating for high output and enhanced stability for read/write performance.
- Built-in non-contact 8KB memory chip stores historical usage records and enables high speed data searches by the drive. In addition, Maxell Cartridge Memory Analyzers use this chip to diagnose drive or tape abnormalities.
About Maxell NeoSMART technology
Maxell's NeoSMART (Super Maximum-capacity Advanced Reliability Tape) technology integrates seven leading-edge technologies essential to the expansion from Gigabyte to Terabyte storage capacities. NeoSMART technologies consist of: ultra thin coating, advanced dispersion, fine metal particles, high performance cartridges, high precision servo tracking, superior calendering and highly precise slitting. Each of these technologies has been developed and perfected by Maxell through years of research and hands-on experience developing and manufacturing advanced tape media.
NeoSMART logo is a trademark of Maxell in the US and other countries.
About Maxell
Maxell Corporation of America, a technology and marketing leader, is a full line manufacturer of digital media products for professional, data storage and consumer markets. Maxell has been recognized for over forty years for delivering a comprehensive line of digital tape and disc-based recording media products. The company offers a full line of disk and tape based media storage products, P2 Cards, SD Cards, Flash Memory and iVDR Technology products.
Linear Tape-Open, LTO, the LTO Logo, Ultrium and the Ultrium Logo are trademarks of HP, IBM and Quantum in the US and other countries.
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*Assumes 2:1 data compression.
SOURCE: Maxell Corporation