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Spectra logic t9501/7/2024 ![]() "Many of our customers took advantage of Spectra's industry-first LTO-5 advance purchase program, and we are excited about this similar offering for LTO-6. "Spectra Logic's LTO-6 pre-purchase program will allow our customers to seamlessly and economically scale the capacity of their storage backup and archive infrastructures," said Dave Hiechel, president and CEO of EAGLE Software, a U.S.-based Elite SpectraEDGE channel partner. In addition, LTO-6 drives will be fully compatible with Spectra's BlueScale® software and features, including BlueScale Encryption and Key Management, Spectra's Media Lifecycle Management (MLM), Data Integrity Verification, drive-level AES-256 bit encryption key generation and WORM media capabilities. LTO-6 drives are designed with backwards-compatible read-and-write capability with LTO-5 cartridges, and backward read capabilities with LTO-4 and LTO-5 cartridges, to ensure investment protection and to ease deployment. LTO-6 will offer a storage capacity of up to 8.0 Terabytes (compressed), or 3.2TB native – more than double the capacity of the previous generation, and expected transfer rates of up to 525 Megabytes per second (compressed), or 210 MB/s native. For the Spectra T50e and T120 libraries, LTO-6 tape drives will come in either 8Gb fibre channel or 6Gb SAS interfaces. ![]() This unique program from Spectra Logic enables customers to make tape library purchases to meet today's data storage needs while ensuring the investment is future-proofed with an upgrade to the next generation drive and media technology once available.įor Spectra's larger libraries, including the T-Finity, T950, T680, T380 and T200, LTO-6 tape drives will include native 8 Gigabit (Gb) fibre channel interfaces that are compatible with existing 2Gb, 4Gb and 8Gb fibre channel switches and host bus adapters. Once LTO-6 is released, pre-purchase customers will be at the top of the initial shipment list to receive new LTO-6 drives from Spectra. With general availability of LTO-6 tape drives and media expected in 2012, customers can now join the LTO-6 pre-purchase program and receive LTO-5 drives today for use until LTO-6 drives become available. Spectra Logic, celebrating more than 30 years of data storage innovation, today announced the worldwide launch of its Linear Tape Open Generation 6 (LTO-6) tape drive pre-purchase program. ![]() ![]() Providing Investment Protection and Guaranteed Access to First Available LTO-6 Shipments. ![]()
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