LTO Ultrium Tape Drive

The Linear Tape Open (LTO) Gen 3 tape drive stores up to 400 gigabytes of native data on a single cartridge. With write-once, read-many (WORM) capability to designed to help you address compliance requirements, it also allows you to leverage the same drive for both WORM and regular data. The LTO Gen 2 tape drive stores up to 200 gigabytes of native data on a single cartridge. These high capacity drives work in tandem with available Fibre Channel interfaces to help manage rapid data growth in a cost-effective manner.

LTO Gen 1
Capacity, native (uncompressed):100 GB
Data transfer rate, native (uncompressed):15–16 MB/sec
Interface:Single port Ultra 2 SCSI

LTO Gen 2
Capacity, native (uncompressed):200
GBData transfer rate, native (uncompressed):32–35 MB/sec
Interface:Single port Ultra 3

LTO Gen 3
Capacity, native (uncompressed):400 GB
Data transfer rate, native (uncompressed):80 MB/sec
Interface:SCSI Ultra 320 SCSI