LTO Ultrium Tapes  About LTO Ultrium Tapes  You're an LTO
Ultrium tape user. You laugh in the face of anyone who dares to
say magnetic tape is dead. While even a middle aged man,
desperately clinging to his glory days of the 1980s can admit
the era of picking up the latest Van Halen album on cassette is
long gone, magnetic tape is still used by many for data backup.
Since you're the owner of an LTO tape drive, you know this
better than anyone. To provide a brief history lesson for
everyone else, the LTO tape format was launched in the 1990s as
a joint venture between Hewlett Packard, IBM, and Seagate. Known
by most as "LTO Ultrium", the original generation is capable of
storing 100 gigabytes of data. In the years following the launch
of LTO tape, the LTO Ultrium format saw four subsequent
generations push the envelope to the point where an LTO Ultrium
tape is capable of storing 1.5 terabytes of data. In fact,
future generations of LTO Ultrium tape with even greater storage
capacity are in the works. Consideri