New LTO3 Tape Technology

Thespecifications of LTO3 tape have provided opportunity to the manufacturers ofLTO ultrium to offer LTO 3tape products with incorporated feature of WORM (write once, read many).Guidelines have been established by the Government regulations like theSarbanes-Oxley Act, Act of Health Insurance Portability & Accountabilityand SEC Rule 17a-4 on how much time period the data should be kept secure,retained and remain unchanged. The businesses are looking forward to adopt moreaffordable tape storage technologies that are capable of storing criticalinformation for time span of ten years or more, without any alterations. LTO3tape media technology meets these requirements of the organizations in costefficient manner. The WORM functionality in the LTO 3 tape products havesuccessfully addressed the needs of its customers for long term and costefficient data archiving. The specifications of LTO third generation includesco-existence of non-WORM and WORM enabled backup tape drive. Implementation ofLTO program has provided the organization with a highly durable and low costmeans of storing valuable information in non-erasable and non-alterable format.

LTO3 tape technology is the best cost effective choice for data archiving up toseveral decades. CM (cartridge memory) is also included in the LTO3 ultriumtape cartridge which is used by the robust algorithms. The specific design ofcartridge memory helps in preventing tampering.

LTO3tape format also supports the previously written data which has been appendedat the end of WORM ultrium cartridge. Therefore the users can take completeadvantage of the great recording capacity of the LTO ultrium tape and performtheir work operations at low cost. Dynamic data rate is an innovative techniquewhich has been employed in the LTO 3 tape format.

Thenew technique of dynamic data rate enhances the performance and durability ofthe LTO3 backup tape media. Its storage capacity also has been doubled fromthat of LTO-2 tape format. 400 gigabytes is the native capacity of LTO 3 tapecartridge, and it can hold double the amount of compressed data from its nativecapacity.

Informationon LTO2 tape media can be read by LTO3 tape technology and data can also bewritten on to it. On the other hand, the LTO 3 tape is only capable of readinginformation from the LTO-1 tape media. This new third generation LTO tapeformat protects the users’ investment. LTO is the only technology whose base isan open specification. It also supports data interchange. The specification ofLTO can be licensed by any manufacturer thus providing unique ability to theusers to select from number of tape cartridge and drive offerings. Competitivepricing, technological innovation and compatible products’ multiple sources arefostered by such pro-competitive environment. Stress on LTO ultrium media anddrive is lowered by the “dynamic data rate” process which optimizes the performanceand output level. In dynamic data rate, the tape drive’s speed is closelymatched with transfer speed of network or host server. Robust LTO3 data tapesare available at available at tape4backup dot com with lifetime warranty.