The availability of four generations of LTO tape drives simplifies the decision—it is the only option available for low cost requirements where capacity growth potential matches the data growth rates that businesses are facing today.
Since its introduction, LTO has been known as the enterprise-class technology of choice for medium to large size businesses and in medium and large size libraries. Tandberg Data’s LTO-5 half-height (HH) drive brings enterprise-level performance to small and medium businesses at an affordable price. The Tandberg LTO-5 HH drive features high capacity of 1.5TB (native) and a dynamically variable adaptive tape speed to match host data rate from 47-140MB/sec (native) to match host transfer speeds, as well as a state-of-the art 6Gb SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) interface, providing maximum data throughput and reduced backup and restore times. Tandberg Data’s LTO drives are backed by more than 30 years of experience in linear tape technology research, design and manufacturing.
The Tandberg LTO half-height drives offer one of the industry’s fastest transfer rates with high capacity to minimize backup times, Its compact size, provides simple and easy integration into all servers and workstation. The LTO technology makes it easy for users to standardize on a tape technology that meets today’s data capacity requirements and ensures futures growth potential. LTO’s six-generation roadmap, with four generations available today makes it a clear choice for small to medium businesses.
Turnkey Solution
The Tandberg LTO-5 HH ships with Symantec’s Backup Exec QuickStart software, embedded media management for intelligent diagnostics and tape alerts, and comes with 3 years warranty and support.
Media Compatibility
The Tandberg LTO-HH is compatible with industry standard, multi-sourced LTO media. To achieve the best reliability, Tandberg LTO branded and qualified data cartridges are recommended.
LTO-5 HH
| Capacity (native) | 1500 GB |
| Capacity (compressed) | 3000 GB |
| Transfer Rate (native) | 140 MB/s |
| Transfer Rate (compressed) | 280 MB/s |
| Buffer Size | 256 MB |
| File Access Time | 70 |
| System Interface | Serial Attached SCSI 6Gbps |
| Form Factor | Half Height |
| Recording format | LTO Ultrium 5, LTO Ultrium 4, LTO Ultrium 3 (read only) |
| Backward write | LTO Ultrium 4, LTO Ultrium 3 (read only) |
| Backward read | LTO Ultrium 4 |
| Data Compression | LTO-DC |
| Power Consumption (operating mode) | 20 W |
| Power Consumption (sleeping mode) | 6.9 W |
| Digital speed matching (DSM) | 47–140MB/s / 94–280MB/s* |
| WORM Support | Yes |
| Encryption | Yes |
| Media Durability (archival life) | 30 years |
| Hard Read Error Rate (less than) | 1 x 10(-17) bits |
| MTBF | 250,000 hours hours |
| Head life | 60,000 tape running hours hours |
| Temperature (operating) | 50F to 95F - 10C to 40 |
| Temperature (non-operating) | -40F to 151F - -40C to 66 |
| Relative Humidity, Non-operating | 20 to 80% (non-condensing) % |
| Relative Humidity, operating | 10% to 95% (non-condensing) % |
| Certification marks | CSA Certification to C22.2, No. 60950 (cCSAus), TUV EN60950 (IEC 60950), CE Declaration of Conformity, FCC 47 CFR Parts 15, NOM, VCCI. C-TICK, RRL, BSMI, GOSH CB Certificate and Report (IEC 60950) |
| Drive Warranty | 3-years Warranty and Advanced Replacement Service* years |