With a compressed transfer rate of up to
240MB/sec and storage capacity of up to 1.6TB, Maxell's Ultrium 4 data cartridge
is the fourth generation in the LTO Ultrium technology roadmap. The new
technology provides two times the capacity of LTO 3 data cartridge and a
transfer rate that is 50 percent faster. The LTO Ultrium 4 technology is
backward compatible with earlier generations, allowing LTO Ultrium 4 end-users
continued access to Ultrium 2 & 3 tape archives to extend their investments made
in previous versions. The Maxell LTO Ultrium 4 data cartridge may be used in all
4 Ultrium drives.
New to Ultrium tape technology, the LTO Ultrium
4 format features encryption capabilities designed to enable hardware-based
writing of encrypted data to the LTO Ultrium data cartridge, helping to protect
the storage and transport of sensitive information.
The implementation of Maxell NeoSMART (Super
Maximum-capacity Advanced Reliability Tape) technologies, developed through
years of refinement and experience in data storage, has been instrumental in
enabling the development and release of LTO Ultrium 4 data cartridges. Key
features of Maxell LTO 4 data cartridge include:
- New ultra-fine ceramic-armored metal
particles with high coercivity and superior remanence improving long-term
magnetic stability for archival applications. Maxell’s ceramic armor coats
the metal particle with a thin ceramic layer to protect from corrosion and
provide advanced archival storage life, superior durability and very low
error rate levels.
- Extremely accurate servo writing
technologies ensure stable servo characteristics and superior tracking
reliability to prevent any data loss.
- Improved cartridge durability with
Maxell’s high precision molding and spot welding around cartridge openings,
for outstanding shock resistance during shipping and day-to-day handling.
- Stringent testing ensures that Maxell
produces a superior tape with an exceptional reliability of over one million
passes, despite the rapid tape transport speeds utilized by Ultrium 4 drives
and the additional stress placed on the tape.
- Maxell’s Teal colored LTO-4 cartridge
color provides greater ease of use through ready visual identification. This
allows effortless differentiation from LTO-3 cartridges (gray-blue), LTO-2
cartridges (purple), LTO-1 cartridges (black) and LTO universal cleaning
cartridges (gray).
- Built-in cartridge memory chip stores
historical usage records and enables high speed data searches by the drive.
This feature is unique to the LTO Ultrium format.
