LTO Ultrium 4 Data Cartridge

1. What is the LTO Ultrium 4 data cartridge?
The LTO Ultrium 4 data cartridge is the fourth generation of LTO Ultrium technology. The LTO 4 data cartridge extends native capacities to 800GB native (1.6TB compressed), an improvement of 100% over LTO3 (400GB native). The LTO 4 data cartridge utilizes the same form factor as LTO products.
The LTO Ultrium roadmap shows LTO5 data cartridge (1.6TB native, 3.2TB compressed) and LTO6 data cartridge (3.2TB native, 6.4TB compressed).

2. What is the compliance verification test?
The TPC (Technology Provider Companies) conducts the compliance verification testing that involves licensee’s media undergoing an exhaustive series of tests which cover compatibility with drives and media. This insures that the LTO 4 drives and media are compatible across all manufacturer products.

3. Why was Maxell able to develop and bring to market LTO 4 media product before any other media manufacturer?
Maxell has several advantages over competing media manufacturers. These include superior technology, vast experience with the development of products such as SDLT and close co-operation with the drive manufacturer.

4. What is the advantage of new PET base film?
A new smooth, high-rigidity PET base film strengthens tape, improves SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio), delivering increased durability and higher dimensional stability.

5. What is the LTO 4 Cartridge color?
LTO 4 data cartridge color is Teal.
LTO 4 WORM cartridge color is Teal / Gray


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Maxell LTO 4 183906 Backup Tape Cartridge

Maxell is a leading and most recognized manufacture of magnetic tape technology, with vast experience in this storage industry. Maxell reliable and most productive storage products are trustful and widely accepted in the storage industry. The introduction of Linear Tape Open media cartridges makes a huge impact on the storage industry and exceptional line up of these products offers massive capacities, high data transfers speeds, excellent preservation, and utmost performance through gradually enhanced technologies by every generation.

The Maxell uses its patented NeoSMART technology and continuing mutual enhancement hard work through the world well known tape drive manufacturer and continue at the leading position of the data recording industry, through a highlighting on value, dependability and its modernism. The combine technologies and features helps this leading manufacture to create LTO1, LTO 2, LTO-3, and now the most productive and reliable Maxell LTO4 tapes storage solution, which represent a lineup which enable high capacity, better speed with the most advanced and reliable technology.

The Maxell LTO-4 increases data tracks up to 896 compare to 704 in LTO3 on half-inch wide and increased 820M long base film. The Maxell LTO4 uses WORM (Write Once Read Many) functionality that is debuted in LTO3 media cartridges and continuing developing WORM cartridges for very compliance regulatory data. Another reliable and most outstanding technology adopted by this generation is hardware based AES 256-bit data encryption formation, which widely used in many other magnetic and optical storage versions.

The Maxell LTO 4 tape has a built in non-contact improved 8KB memory chip (LTO-CM) which able to store historical usage data and enables rapid access to desired data by the Ultrium 4 tape drive. Moreover, this memory chip monitoring the cartridge and diagnose drive or cartridge abnormalities.

The Maxell LTO 4 data storage cartridge completely improved with basic and adopted some useful and long lasting features that helps cartridge to have more capacity and better data protection.

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Maxell LTO-4 Best technology drive

Maxell's 183906 is a Linear Tape-Open 4(LTO-4) format tape cartridge. It  has a tape length of 820m which enables a native data storage capacity of 800GB that can be expanded up to 1600GB when compressed. 

IBM, Hewlett Packard and Seagate joined forces to invent a new medium known as LTO tape Ultrium open. These giants of the media began LTO consortium, which is responsible for license management, media certification, development of LTO generations and specifications. LTO tape format has been carefully designed taking into the account of reliability and scalability to meet future growth needs.

Maxell manufactures a wide range of data storage devices to help optimize storage performance and offer unparalleled reliability at an economical cost.

Maxell LTO-4 is a storage solution at a competitive price that offers greater storage capacity for backup and ultra high speed with higher integrity.

If you are a network server client, the  rich business data application, large-scale enterprise, financial institution or a departmental server, then you can count on excellent compatibility and robust media capabilities data protection technology, Maxell LTO-4 Ultrium. Exceptional storage value, affordability and durability of Maxell LTO4 Ultrium technology to provide database administrators peace of mind.

Maxell LTO 4 cartridge can hold 800 GB of data in native mode, and speed of data transfer to LTO4 drives achieve an amazing 120 MB / sec. Maxell LTO-4 drive features advanced security technology as a mechanism to drive-level encryption and WORM technology.Encryption level of the unit eliminates the need for complex and expensive software.

3 GB SAS interface allows users to install the Maxell LTO-4 in a wide range of complex server environments. Maxell LTO-4 Ultrium devices are designed for server compatibility taller, longer life and lower cost of ownership. Data compression ability to drive Maxell LTO-4 Ultrium is 2:1, which extends the transfer speed up to 240 Mbps and the ability of the media up to 1600 GB.
Maxell offers a wide range of tape formats. Other tape cartridge media developed by Maxell are:

Maxell LTO Ultrium-1 100/200GB Tape (Recertified)

Maxell LTO-1 Tape Cartridge

Maxell LTO-2 Tape Cartridge

Maxell LTO-3 Tape Cartridge

Maxell 400GB/800GB LTO-3 Backup WORM Tape (Retail Pack)

Maxell LTO-5 Tape Cartridge

Maxell LTO Cleaning Tape Cartridge

Maxell LTO-4 is the most efficient and reliable IT environments today. Maxell has designed intelligently Ultrium LTO-4 drive to deliver excellent performance with the previous generation LTO-3 and LTO-2 data tapes. The read and write operations can be performed on LTO 3 cartridges while you can recover data files LTO-2 tape. Roadmap clear and well defined standard LTO helps protect users from IT investments and help them improve their data storage system at an affordable price. Maxell LTO-4 tape drives excellent performance with lower power consumption, thereby helping to reduce operating and maintenance costs over time.

Maxell also offers superior services company, enabling IT professionals and data managers to maximize system availability and optimize performance of their backup systems and information technology. Maxell offers its customers technical assistance and expert advice to help increase ROI and reduce total cost of ownership. Maxell's services arm of their IT staff with the latest knowledge and updating their knowledge that ultimately helps to increase productivity and overall efficiency.