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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...

PMD Magnetics has been appointed as an HP Enterprise Business Partner – which means we can now offer a range of HP data storage technologies and solutions including:- HP StoreEver tape drives & libraries HP StoreOnce automated disk to disk backup HP 3Par StoreServ HP StoreVirtual VSA The HP family of storage products and solutions help meet user requirements for primary storage, backup & recovery, data analytics and archiving. The feature product in the HP StoreEver family is the MSL6480 tape library (see video below). This cutting edge automated tape library system delivers best-in-class scalability, density and performance to meet...

PMD Magnetics have expanded its range of innovative data management and archive technology solutions to include mLogic’s mTape LTO6 Thunderbolt external tape drive. The mLogic mTape is the world's first Thunderbolt enabled desktop external LTO6 tape drive. The drive has a compact form factor which sits neatly on your desktop and plugs directly into your MAC or PC via the high speed Thunderbolt2 interface, allowing data transfer speeds of up to 20gb/sec, using reliable and robust LTO6 data tape media. The mLogic mTape has dual Thunderbolt ports to enable daisy-chaining and is plug-and-play so takes very little time to set...

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,...