Long Term Data Reliability With New Quantum Lto 5 Tape Technology

By Author: Rob Miller
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The volume of corporate databases is continuously increasing due to the rapid growth in structured & un-structured data. Therefore the data administrators' job has become tougher as they have to devise the data protection strategy in their limited budgets. LTO ultrium tape format is the data-intensive organizations' first choice that is specifically engineered to satisfy the current & future storage demands.

Quantum, a backup media specialist, offers you a complete range of LTO-5 tape devices including backup tapes, drives, and libraries. MR-L5MQN-01 is the part number of Quantum's LTO-5 cartridge, which is capable of recording an enormous 1.5 TB of native data. Video professionals and customers of complex server environments, large financial databases, workgroups, government agencies and departmental servers can count on the Quantum LTO-5 ultrium technology.

Robustly designed Quantum LTO-5 tapes feature almost 100% greater recording capacity than LTO-4 tapes. Quantum has added new reliable features and made significant technological advancements to enhance the output characteristics and data protection ...
... capability of its LTO5 tape devices. Quantum LTO-5 ultrium technology facilitates the organizations to extend their business operations and improve their operating efficiency at an economical cost.

Fast speed Quantum LTO5 drives achieve up to 140MB/s native throughput rate. In order to provide more choice and better facilitate the customers, Quantum has designed both half-height & full-height tape drives. Power consumed by Quantum LTO5 drives is lesser than the LTO4 drives, which makes them more power efficient and a greener backup solution. Introduction of latest industry leading SAS 6 GB/s interface assists the data managers to easily incorporate the Quantum LTO-5 drives into their demanding data centers and complex server environments.

Quantum LTO-5 drives, provide a link with the previously installed LTO backup resources. The customers can restore their data from LTO4 and LTO-3 tapes with all models of Quantum LTO-5 drives. Additionally, you can also write data on LTO-4 tapes. Good news is that the half-height version of Quantum LTO-5 drives offers the HBA (host bus adapter) interface option as well.

LTO-5 is the first version of LTO tape in which a new innovative Media partitioning mechanism has been introduced. With the help of this new technology, now you make 2 partitions on a single LTO-5 cartridge. Now the customers can easily archive and store their digital media files through audio & video broadcast applications.

Other LTO ultrium tapes manufactured by Quantum are:

Quantum LTO4 tape
MR-L4MQN-01

Quantum ultrium LTO 3 tape
MR-L3MQN-01

Quantum LTO-2 backup tape
MR-L2MQN-01

Quantum LTO universal cleaning cartridge
MR-LUCQN-01

Quantum LTO 1 tape
MR-L1MQN-01

With Quantum LTO-5 technology, the users can be assured of long term protection with its exceptional hardware based data encryption mechanism. Quantum LTO 5 drives intelligently encode your sensitive data, making it sure that the data cannot be used maliciously if it is lost or stolen. Therefore the business enterprises can easily satisfy the new demanding data legislations.

Quantum LTO-5 drive's Fast sense technology ensures unmatched data precision and consistent performance by monitoring the incoming transfer rate and accordingly adjusting the streaming speed of tape drive. You can trust the Quantum LTO5 format for long term data security and regulatory compliance. All product names mentioned in this article are trademarks and are sole-property of their owners.

Rob Miller is the Marketing Manager of Tape4backup and markets Quantum MR-L5MQN-01 Tape and Sony SDX4200CWW Tape. He has vast experience in the marketing and trading industries and has been helping buyers who have the backup needs and guide clients about the technology.

Rob Miller
34972 Newark Blvd,# 501,Newark CA 94560
Tel: 888-491-4949
Fax: 888-449-5050
Email: rob@tape4backup.com