HPE LTO-9 Ultrium Tapes 45TB

Overview

Lowest Total Cost of Ownership for Long-term Archiving

• According to a white paper from ESG, ‘The Economic Benefits of HPE StoreEver as Active Archival Storage’, published in August 2020, LTO tape technology is over 80% less expensive across a 10-year period, than either all-disk or all-cloud solutions for a 1 PB archive growing at 10% per annum.

• Standardizing on HPE LTO Ultrium delivers the capacity to meet shrinking backup windows, industry-standard, AES 256-bit encryption (IEEE1619.1), and interchangeable read-write (RW) or WORM media; without extra space or IT resource overhead.

• Open standard technology helps ensure compatibility across product generations and gives you more choice. HPE LTO Ultrium cartridges are available as custom labeled or non-custom labeled.

• HPE brand qualification test procedures (load/unload, shoeshine, drop testing and environmental stress testing).This ensures maximum reliability for restoring your data.

• HPE offers a limited lifetime warranty for HPE LTO Ultrium cartridges, including up to 30 years archival life, if stored at the recommended storage conditions. This ensures businesses can meet the ever-increasing demands of regulation for dataretention and archiving.

Highest Capacity and Performance of any Comparable Tape Technology

• HPE LTO-9 Ultrium data cartridges can write or read data at a blistering native 1.44 TB/hour, storing, encrypting, and protecting up to 45 TB* on a single cartridge, making it ideal for large-scale, 24x7, mission-critical IT environments (*capacity assumes 2.5:1 compression).

• A 35% increase in the number of tracks and a 3% increase in bit density has permitted a capacity increase from 30 TB for LTO-8 to 45 TB for LTO-9. From 2,176 tracks for LTO-6 to 8,960 tracks for 9th generation HPE LTO-9 Ultrium 45 TB cartridges (assuming 2.5:1 compression) – an improvement of 311%

Ultra-reliable Storage Medium

• Tape is more reliable than enterprise SATA disk, with a bit error rate (BER) of 1x10 to the power of 19 for LTO-8 versus 1x10 to the power of 15 for enterprise SATA HDD’s. That’s a difference in reliability of four orders of magnitude–e.g. tape is 10,000 times more reliable than enterprise SATA HDD

• Estimated data loss over 10 years for 1 Exabyte archive is 1.1 Petabytes for HDD compared to only 7.4 Terabytes for tape.

• HPE brand qualification test procedures (load/unload, shoeshine, drop testing and environmental stress testing) go far beyond what is required for the HPE LTO Ultrium. This ensure utmost reliability for restoring your data.

• Superior 'smart grabber' mechanism and mechanical interlock to prevent the leader pin from being pulled inside the tape housing. Sensors detect proper connection and prevent leader loss that would ruin the tape. Simplified tape path to reduce wear, tear, and build-up of debris–crucial in automation.

• User write-on labels are no longer included with A and W SKU's.

Specification

Archival life 30 years

Base material

Metal Particle
Barium Ferrite
Depending on media type

Bit density 545 kb/inch maximum, depending on model
Capacity 45 TB Compressed 2.5:1 Maximum, depending on model

Magnetic coercivity 2850 Oe maximum, depending on model

Data tracks 8,960 maximum, depending on model

Read speed, media400 MB/sec maximum (Native performance, full height drives only)

Tape length1,035m maximum, depending on model
Tape thickness5.2 microns
Tape width12.65 mm

Recording technology LTO-5 Ultrium, LTO-6 Ultrium, LTO-7 Ultrium, LTO-8 Ultrium LTO-9 Ultrium

Media format Re-writable and Write-once media

Product color - LTO-5 light blue; LTO-6 purple; LTO-7 slate blue; LTO-8 green; LTO-9 light blue

Weight 0.28 kg (0.63 lb)

Dimensions11.3 x 11.1 x 2.1 cm (4.45 x 4.37 x 1.8 in)

Data Sheet

Warranty

Limited Lifetime