Maxell 183950 LTO Ultrium-3 WORM Data Tape (400/800GB)

Maxell LTO Ultrium-3 WORM Data Tape (Maxell 183950 - 400/800GB)

Maxell NeoSMART Technology
Maxell's LTO Ultrium3 cartridge employs one of Maxell's latest innovations, NeoSMART Technology. NeoSMART (Super Maximum-capacity Advanced Reliability Tape) integrates seven leading-edge technologies in the manufacturing of ultra high capacity magnetic tape media, and is designed to support future tape capacities in excess of 1 Terabyte. NeoSMART technologies consists of: fine metal particles, advanced dispersion, ultra-thin coating, superior calendering, highly precise slitting, precision servo track writing, and high-performance cartridges. One of the key components of NeoSMART is Maxell's NanoCAP (Nano Composite Advanced Particles) technology. NanoCAP particles provide extraordinary tape performance as compared to conventional magnetic particles, with superior coercivity and extremely high saturation magnetization.

LTO 3 WORM
LTO Ultrium 3 format also includes a WORM (Write Once, Read Many) version, which will be further differentiated by a two-tone color cartridge. This feature is very important for meeting government compliance regulations such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley.

Features

• LTO-Ultrium drives offer improvements over current linear multi-channel bi-directional tape formats in the areas of timing based servo, hardware data compression, optimized track layouts, and high efficiency error correction codes. All of these enhancements help the LTO-Ultrium format make the most of capacity and performance.
• Timing based servo - The Ultrium tape drive uses a dedicated dual servo. Two servo bands are pre-written on the tape during the tape manufacturing process. If one servo element in the drive fails, or if a portion of the servo code on the tape becomes corrupt, the head will continue to track using the second, or "redundant" servo system.
• Hardware data compression - The drive uses embedded control symbols to mark file record boundaries, enabling a continuous stream of compressed data to be created by the hardware. As a result, the drive firmware doesn't need to build headers or trailers for individual file records.
• Optimized track layouts - The LTO-Ultrium tape is divided into 4 regions, or "data bands". Each data band can contain up to 96 tracks (total number of tracks per band = 384), and is bordered on the top and bottom by a band of servo information. Each data band is filled one at a time.
• High efficiency error correction codes - The ECC (error correction code) used by LTO-Ultrium is powerful enough to ensure reliable recovery of data even with the loss of one of eight tracks on a read operation and up to 1% of the bytes on the remaining tracks being corrupted.