LTO 3 Tape Makes Its Way to Market
December 7, 2004 Alex Woodie
The third generation of Linear Tape-Open products is finally here, just in time for the IT holiday shopping season. With double the performance of the previous LTO Ultrium 2 spec, tape drives built on LTO Ultrium 3 technology offer 80-MB-per-second native transfer speeds, while LTO 3 cartridges can hold 400 GB native. The three LTO 3 drive manufacturers–Certance (formerly Seagate), Hewlett-Packard, and IBM–are either shipping LTO 3 drives now or will be shortly. The LTO Ultrium 3 spec is one of the so-called “super” half-inch tape drive technologies, and it is in the same general class as |