HP LTO 8 Tape Data Cartridge, (Q2078A)

Description

HP LTO-8 Ultrium RW Data Cartridge can write or read data at a blistering 2.7 TB/hour, storing, encrypting and protecting up to 30 TB on a single cartridge, making it ideal for large-scale, 24 x 7, mission-critical IT environments (assumes 2.5:1 compression).

Tape is more reliable than Enterprise SATA disk. With a BER of 1×10 to the power of 19 for HP LTO-8 versus 1×10 to the power of 15 for Enterprise SATA HDD’s. That’s a difference in reliability of four orders of magnitude – e.g. tape is 10,000 times more reliable than Enterprise SATA HDD.

Features and Benefits

• Capacity of 12 TB and up to 30 TB compressed capacity on HP StoreEver and non-HP LTO-8 devices.
• Supports transfer speeds of 360 MB/s (native) and up to 900 MB/s (2.5:1) with Generation 8
• Barium Ferrite (BaFe) technology
• Support for tape drive hardware encryption
• Compatible with Linear Tape File System (LTFS)
• Simplified tape path to reduce wear and tear.