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LTFS (Linear Tape File System) has made a a huge contribution to the use of LTO Ultrium tape in the data storage industry. As storage capacity and data transfer speeds have increased, LTFS has enabled new uses of LTO Ultrium tape to manage and archive file content. The recent introduction of HPE LTO7 tape, with 15TB storage capacity and 750mb/sec transfer rates, makes LTFS even more useful in the management of files. LTFS allows an LTO tape to appear as a storage device, with a straight forward graphical interface. Users can drag and drop files, in the same way as...

Fuji LTO 7 Ultrium Data Tape with 15TB of data storage capacity per tape is now available. With speeds of up to 750MB/second, the transfer rates on LTO 7 are impressively fast - more than double that of previous generations of LTO tapes. Fuji LTO 7 tape media features Fujifilm’s proprietary Barium Ferrite (BaFe) tape coating technology, developed specifically for long-term archival storage. BaFe tape coating also enables massive enterprise-class storage capacities of up to 15TB per tape. This equates to 2.4 times the capacity of LTO 6 and 4 times the capacity of LTO-5. LTO 7 Ultrium technology also...

Researchers at IBM, working with FujiFilm, have recently achieved a major breakthrough in data tape technology, ensuring that Magnetic Tape solutions will lead the world in robust, reliable and cost effective Big Data management systems. FujiFilm's high density Barium Ferrite (BaFe) tape coating, along with other technical developments, has increased data capacity of a single tape to 154 terabytes - 62 times more data than LTO6! With developments in data hardware and supporting software products – such as LTFS - it is clear that magnetic data tape technology will lead the market for handling, storing and archiving Big Data now,...