Latest Generation Quantum Lto5, Mr-l5mqn-01 Backup Media Format Compared With Lto 4 Media

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Whether you are a large-scale enterprise, small business or data-rich organization, data backup and security are vital for organizational sustainability and seamless expansion of business operations. LTO ultrium tape format offers you a low-cost, intelligent and reliable backup storage solution that offers “openness”. This allows you to seamlessly operate LTO media tapes will all compliant LTO hardware including libraries and drives. The latest LTO 5 solution provides superior reliability, massive recording capacity and greater storage density in its class.

Quantum’s superior backup media expertise and technical excellence makes it the best brand for data storage solutions. Quantum, also the leading member of LTO consortium, has developed a complete product line of LTO backup tape devices that provide optimal backup solution for small to large enterprises. Quantum LTO-5 solution facilitates the I.T staff to manage their rapidly growing corporate data more efficiently, while providing remarkable support to a variety of storage environments.

MR-L5MQN-01 is the part number of Quantum’s latest generation ...
... LTO5 ultrium cartridge that can tolerate vibrations, bumps and harsh working conditions. That is why the IT managers trust Quantum LTO5 media cartridge for data sharing and long term off-site data protection. LTO5 ultrium tape’s massive 1.5TB capacity saves more shelf space, while reducing the time needed for tape swaps and media handling. Storage capacity of previous LTO4 cartridge is 88% lesser, and can hold up to 800GB data.

No matter how complex your storage environment is, Quantum has the right LTO-5 tape drive unit that can fulfill your needs with superior data integrity. The half and full height drives make data management easy and provide more flexibility. Tremendous native speed of 140 Mbps enables satisfaction of modern time-critical applications’ demands.

LTO ultrium5 technology inherits the reliable technologies featured in LTO4 tape solution, which are data encryption and WORM mechanism. Furthermore, the breakthrough “dual media partitioning” system has been employed to provide LTO5 customers the convenience of creating two partitions on a single LTO5 ultrium cartridge.

Backward read compatibility of Quantum LTO5 drives reach up to the LTO ultrium3 tape generation, enabling consolidation of LTO tape resources and seamless migration to new LTO tape versions. The users can also confidently record data onto LTO ultrium4 backup tapes with LTO5 drive. The high-performance 6GB/sec SAS interface enables smoother integration of Quantum LTO 5 drives into the complex data centers.

Data access time has been further reduced to help keep pace with the modern backup applications. 56 seconds and 51 seconds are the average data access time offered by full height and half height drives respectively. “FastSense” is a breakthrough feature, which enables the Quantum LTO5 drive to alter its speed accordingly to that of incoming data. This helps to elevate the performance level and sharply reduce the error rate. In addition, the drive can efficiently complete the data read/write tasks at a faster rate. Rack mount configurations allow efficient use of data-center space, making it the product choice of many fast-growing businesses.

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Frank Miller is the Marketing Manager of Backuptape and markets LTO 5 tape and MR-L5MQN-01. He has vast experience in the marketing and trading industries and has been helping buyers who have the backup needs and guide clients about the technology.

Frank Miller
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