LTO Tape

LTO (Linear- Tape Open) is a multi-million dollar collaboration between HP, IBM and Seagate. The LTO philosophy of openness and cooperation has ensured the backing of a wide range of tape drive, media and automation licensees, for an unprecedented level of competition within a single format. For customers, that means quality products, innovation and widespread availability at the best prices. The very best features of existing tape storage technologies have been incorporated and enhanced to create a new benchmark for data integrity and reliability. The LTO Tape Format is a high capacity tape format. Offering 200 Gigabytes of storage with a projected doubling of this storage every year (400GB in 2005) LTO has a 40MB/s transfer rate currently. These transfer rates are also projected to double each year. This exceptionally reliable, high performance format has been developed to meet many of the data protection needs associated with the explosion in information storage.