Spectra Logic announced that it is now shipping LTO-5 drives and Spectra certified LTO-5 media cartridges in its T-Series tape libraries. According to the statement, LTO-5 media cartridges have a native capacity of 1.5 TB (3TB with 2:1 compression) and LTO-5 drives have a native transfer rate of up to 140MBps (280MBps in compressed mode). …
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Tandberg Data announced its new family of tape autoloaders and scalable libraries based on LTO-5 technology, the latest generation of the LTO Ultrium tape format. According to the statement, designed for small to medium enterprise environments, Tandberg Data’s StorageLoader and StorageLibrary Series with LTO-5 allow customers to shorten backup windows, simplify storage management and reduce …
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Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. and the Tokyo Institute of Technology announced that they have demonstrated a world-record areal density of 45.0 Gb/in2 in linear formatted perpendicular magnetic recording media. According to the statement, this development may enable magnetic tapes to eventually store over 50 TB of data, which is roughly 33 times larger than current LTO …
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Imation Corp. announced it is launching a broad portfolio of products to protect information on external hard drives, flash drives, CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, and similar “at-rest” storage devices from hackers, identity thieves and other electronic intruders. According to the statement, the company’s new Defender Collection line of digital storage products is engineered to meet …
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Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. announced that it has begun shipping its new LTO Ultrium 5 data cartridge, which meets the growing demand for storing and backing-up digital information by offering a maximum storage capacity of 3TB (assuming 2:1 data compression). According to the statement, Maxell recently completed the LTO Ultrium 5 data cartridge compliance verification process …
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Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM Corporation and Quantum announced that the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium format continues to maintain high user acceptance rates.
Fujifilm Recording Media U.S.A., Inc., a division of Fujifilm Corporation, announced it will be one of the first manufacturers in the world to be certified by the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Technology Provider Companies (TPCs) as successfully completing compliance testing. Fujifilm plans to immediately begin mass production of LTO Ultrium Generation 5 data cartridges. According to …
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Imation Corp. announced that it will begin shipping its Imation LTO Ultrium Generation 5 tape cartridges, with nearly double the storage capacity, increased data transfer rates, and a new partitioning functionality over the prior tape generation. According to the statement, this follows certification by the Measurement Analysis Corporation (MAC), an independent testing board for compliance …
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TDK Corporation announced that it completed development of its LTO Ultrium 5 data cartridges, the fifth-generation Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium format, and the cartridges recently passed certification testing by the LTO compliance verification entity (CVE). TDK has now started mass production of its LTO Ultrium 5 data cartridges. According to the statement, TDK has long …
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Some sad news today. Sony Electronics announced that it plans to shutter its Dothan, Alabama manufacturing plant and move its production to Japan.
Imation Corp. announced that it will showcase its range of data storage and data security products and its National Media Lab (NML) in booth 1113 at West 2010, the largest state-of-the-art defense and technology exposition and conference on the West Coast at the San Diego Convention Center, Feb. 2 – 4, 2010. Co-sponsored by The …
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