Storage requirements have inevitably grown alongside rising data volumes in today's information-driven enterprises. Besides primary storage, backups have become increasingly important for disaster recovery and regulatory compliance. The LTO-8 Ultrium Fiber Channel 8 Gb/s Tape Drive from Qualstar answers those business needs by incorporating the latest generation of LTO technology that will help organizations handle the growing data demands of modern tape use cases like big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), media and entertainment, digital video surveillance, active file archiving and, of course, for backup.
LTO-8 provides even higher capacity than the previous generation. For small and mid-sized businesses requiring backup and low-cost archival storage of data, LTO-8 is an excellent tape-storage solution, providing a physical storage capacity of up to 12TB per cartridge (native) or 30TB per cartridge (with 2.5:1 compression). The drive boasts an uncompressed data transfer rate of up to 360 MB/s and up to 750 MB/s with 2.5:1 compression with 8 Gb/s Fiber Channel interface connectivity.
IBM Spectrum Archive supports the tape-oriented LTFS and helps reduce complexity by enabling a graphical user interface to the tape drive's contents using the operating system file manager. These features together help make tape-based data as easy to find and access as disk- or flash-based data. In addition, LTFS-capable tape drives are designed to be interchangeable among compatible LTO tape drives and supported operating systems, so administrators do not have to worry about hardware or software compatibility. With LTFS, managers can quickly access, store or archive files on tape, and transport files to and from different locations in a very easy to use format.