Fujitsu said that its Eternus LT20, LT40 and LT60 tape libraries will be equipped with the LTO tape drives, LTO-5, to speed up the read and write speeds on tape.
The new drives will provide customers with up to 3 TB of storage capacity, as each LTO-5 tape reduces the number of tapes needed. They enable capacities of almost twice that of LTO-4 and four times that of LTO-3, the company said.
The manufacturer claimed that its new drives offer faster throughput, expanded speed matching and increased data buffer size and features WORM (Write Once, Read Many) and encryption capability.
Jens Peter Seick, senior vice president of datacenter systems product division at Fujitsu Technology Solutions, said: "The new LTO-5 underlines once again the power of innovation that drives tape technology. Just as it was with the previous generations, we are now ready – after a number of comprehensive tests – to offer our customers LTO-5 at a very early stage."
