{"id":582,"date":"2011-09-26T10:08:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T15:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/?p=582"},"modified":"2011-09-26T10:09:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T15:09:16","slug":"sony-will-develop-lto-6-tape-media-8-terabytes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/sony-will-develop-lto-6-tape-media-8-terabytes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Will Develop LTO-6 Tape Media &#8211; 8 Terabytes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony\u2019s Storage Media Division has signed the LTO-6 licensing agreement with Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Quantum. This agreement now allows Sony to start development of its LTO-6 Ultrium tape media. The estimated storage capacity will be 8TB per tape using compression.<\/p>\n<p>The 6th generation (LTO-6) tape technology is designed to support the ever-increasing capacity requirements of today\u2019s data rich storage environments.\u00a0 Each cartridge will be able to store up to an estimated native 3.2TB (8TB 2.5:1 compressed) of data in one cartridge.\u00a0 This new generation of the LTO Ultrium format will also deliver a data transfer rate of up to 210MB\/s native (525MB\/s compressed).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Specific features of Sony\u2019s LTO-6 Ultrium tape cartridge media:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Increased storage capacity, achieved with a newly developed magnetic particle and advances in manufacturing technology, which allow for higher recording density.<\/li>\n<li>LTFS partitioning feature as previously introduced on LTO-5 tapes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">Sony\u2019s development of the LTO-6 format demonstrates its continued commitment to support an impressive range of storage media products that also includes formats such as AIT, AIT-Turbo, 5.25-inch Magneto Optical (MO Disk), DAT 160\/320 and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Techware will continue to offer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/tape_repair.asp\" target=\"_blank\">tape drive repair<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/tape_repair.asp\" target=\"_blank\">tape library repair services<\/a> for all of the most popular data tape drive formats &#8211; LTO, DLT, SDLT, AIT, 8mm, 4mm, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony\u2019s Storage Media Division has signed the LTO-6 licensing agreement with Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Quantum. This agreement now allows Sony to start development of its LTO-6 Ultrium tape media. The estimated storage capacity will be 8TB per tape using compression. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/sony-will-develop-lto-6-tape-media-8-terabytes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-tape-drive-repair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}