LTO5 Tape Specification:

BLAZING SPEED: LTO Ultrium 5® technology has up to 280 MB/s data transfer rates (assuming 2:1 compression) to help improve productivity - Up to 1TB per hour of backup performance per drive.

HUGE CARTRIDGE CAPACITY: 3TB (assuming 2:1 compression) to help reduce storage costs - One LTO-5 cartridge can hold the data of nearly four LTO-3 cartridges.

DATA SECURITY: Tape drive-based 256 bit encryption to help protect sensitive information.

COMPLIANCE: WORM (Write Once Read Many) tape support to help address compliance requirements.

FILE MANAGEMENT: The LTO-5 specification enables a new dual partitioning feature which can help provide faster data access and improved data management. For example: one partition could hold the content and the other could hold the content’s index allowing the tape to be self-describing.

COMPATIBILITY: LTO-5 drives are designed with backwards-compatible read-and-write capability with LTO-4 cartridges, and backward read capabilities with LTO-3 cartridges, helping to protect investments and ease implementation.