Tape is an extremely durable storage solution that can safely protect your data for up to 30 years. LTO technology also features a powerful error correction algorithm, with an error rate of 1 in 10^19. This means, in real terms, that it would take a whole year for 130 tape drives writing data continually to encounter an error that could not be fixed by LTO error correction technology.
The probability of losing data through degradation, however, is far less than it being maliciously encrypted in a ransomware attack, or destroyed by fire, flood or acts of war in the data centre. Here, what really matters are redundancy, tamperproof content and encryption. Things that LTO tape does very well.
3-2-1 durability, WORM media, encryption, a life warranty of up to 30 years and low TCO make LTO tape the best option for long-term data storage.
LTO technology offers a vital last line of defence against cyberattack. Tapes can be taken offline and offsite, creating an air gap that ransomware and other malicious viruses cannot cross. What’s more, if you ever suffer a major IT breach, recovering your data from LTO technology will be much faster than streaming data back from the public cloud.
Encryption
LTO technology offers hardware-based, AES-256 data encryption on LTO-4 and newer drives to protect data from theft or damage while in transit. A powerful drive-level algorithm encrypts the data without impacting compression, performance, and capacity during backup. Read more on data encryption.
The drives can carry out encryption at rated speeds and can compress the data before encrypting it, helping to maximize storage capacities. Tape drive encryption can also help reduce the size of storage infrastructure by eliminating the need to invest and manage an encryption appliance.
Tamperproof storage with Write Once Read Many (WORM)
Industry regulations, along with internal and industry policies, impose strict disciplines about how data should be stored, and for how long. Failure to comply attracts stiff legal penalties. To help organizations meet stringent compliance regulations, LTO technology includes a write-once, read-many (WORM) option (LTO-3 tapes and newer) that stores data in a non-rewritable format.
The technical specifications for LTO WORM media are identical to the standard RW cartridge. All the benefits of the LTO specification apply – performance, reliability, choice, scalability, and investment protection. The difference is in the multiple anti-tampering safeguards and security checks the drive makes between the cartridge memory and the media. WORM identity is encoded in the LTO-CM – and contains different information to the RW tape. The WORM servocode is also different. When a WORM data cartridge is inserted into LTO drive, the drive will recognize it as a WORM data cartridge and will not allow any user data on the tape to be overwritten. Data is guaranteed secure and tamperproof for up to 30 years.
Portable
LTO tape makes it easy to securely transport data from one data center to another. Traditional HDD is far less durable for routine transportation, and solid-state drives (SSDs) are expensive. You could transfer the information from the cloud, but this can clog bandwidth, expose your files to security risks and take a very long time. You can think of LTO technology as low-cost high bandwidth in a box ¬– easily handled, completely removable and transportable. Transferring an entire data center to an alternative site could be as simple as packing up and shipping a box of LTO cartridges.
The green choice
Many organizations with a green agenda are looking for technologies to reduce the costs and environmental impact of their data centers. For archival storage, LTO tape offers huge potential to cut energy consumption. Tape drives use little power when not reading or writing tape cartridges – and tape cartridges in an automated library use no power at all. Simply converting 33% of disk storage to tape could save about 200 million megawatt hours per year because HDD systems use 70 times more energy than tape.
Linear Tape Open (LTO), also known as the LTO Ultrium format is a powerful, scalable, adaptable open tape format that is optimized for high capacity, maximum storage density and performance.
technology offers hardware-based, AES-256 data encryption on LTO-4 and newer drives to protect data from theft or damage while in transit. A powerful drive-level algorithm encrypts the data without impacting compression, performance, and capacity during backup.
LTO cartridges can hold huge amounts of data, offering high-capacity storage that expands with every new iteration and resulting in the need for fewer tapes to store the same amount of data.
Not only is LTO tape reliable, but it is also durable enough to withstand the test of time. LTO Tape provides users with a shelf-life of over 30 years—unlike disk that has a shelf-life of 3-5 years.
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) is one of these agencies. The LTO is tasked to register motor vehicles; issue licenses and permits; enforce land transportation rules and regulations; adjudicate traffic cases; and in the process, collects revenues for the government.
Link-time optimization (LTO) is a whole-program optimization technique that can improve runtime performance by 10-20% or more, at the cost of increased build times.
The biggest disadvantage of lithium titanate batteries is low energy density and high cost. In particular, the low energy density is determined by the principle and performance of the anode material lithium titanate, and it is difficult to have a large breakthrough space.
Large LTO systems have significant management and technical overheads which add to their operating costs, often making them more expensive than cloud storage in practice.
How Does LTO Tape Work? Data is written on the tape in sequential order, one file after the next. Access is also sequential. The maximum transfer speed is reached as soon as the tape is positioned on the respective data block.
Most manufacturers estimate that LTO tapes will provide dependable data storage for 15-30 years. However, LTO archives require precise storage conditions. Slight deviations in temperature or humidity can affect storage life. Ideally, LTOs should be stored at 61 to 77°F (16 to 25°C).
LTO Ultrium cleaning cartridges need to be replaced after 50 uses. The only time you must clean your Ultrium tape drive is when the tape drive alerts you to clean it.
The lifespan of data stored on LTO tape is usually quoted as 30 years. However, tape is extremely sensitive to storage conditions, and the life expectancy numbers cited by tape manufacturers assume ideal storage conditions -- a constant temperature of about 70 degrees Fahrenheit and 40% relative humidity.
Encryption. LTO technology offers hardware-based, AES-256 data encryption on LTO-4 and newer drives to protect data from theft or damage while in transit. A powerful drive-level algorithm encrypts the data without impacting compression, performance, and capacity during backup.
LTO, or limited time offer, is a menu item or set of items that are only available for a limited period of time. For example, the many happy hour ideas used in the restaurant and bar industry are common examples of LTO.
An LTO-7 cartridge offers 15 terabytes (TB) of compressed capacity, sustained data transfer rates of up to 750 megabytes per second (MBps) for compressed data, uncompressed capacity of 6 TB and an uncompressed transfer rate of 300 MBps.
Photo of LTO chief Jay Art Tugade holding a print out of an official receipt of a driver's license, April 20, 2023. MANILA, Philippines — Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief Jay Art Tugade has resigned effective June 1, citing differences with his immediate superior, Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista.
Link Time Optimization is a form of interprocedural optimization that is performed at the time of linking application code. Without LTO, Arm® Compiler for Linux compiles and optimizes each source file independently of one another, then links them to form the executable.
LTO-9 technology boasts the fastest LTO drives to date with up to 1,000 MB per second drive data transfer rate compressed, or up to 3.6 TB per hour, per drive, to help handle the most challenging backup and archive workloads.
With link-time optimization, the compiler can apply various forms of interprocedural optimization to the whole program, allowing for deeper analysis, more optimization, and ultimately better program performance.
Unlike NMC, LTO do not have problem with dendrite build up. This is because of its anode material (lithium-titanium-oxide), that doesn't contain carbon. Conventional lithium-ion batteries usually have graphite anodes containing carbon and are more prone to dendrite build-up over time.
LTO tapes can now be over 20 years old and as these tapes age, data recovery decreases. For older generations of LTO, drives are now obsolete and data throughput rates are superseded.
Continuing its tradition of developing the world's most innovative tape libraries, Spectra Logic's flagship TFinity® ExaScale® Tape Library, now stores an unprecedented exabyte of uncompressed data with LTO-9, making it the world's largest storage system.
DAT, or Digital Audio Tape, is a type of audio tape that is smaller and more compact than traditional audio tape. LTO, or Linear Tape-Open, is a tape format that was developed as an open standards alternative.
Link time optimization (LTO) is a way to run optimizations across multiple translation units, enabling more opportunities for optimizations at link time. Each source file is translated to an intermediate representation, which is then used at link to build an executable or a shared object/library.
LTO-9 is the latest format specification for LTO Ultrium tape drives and media. It provides significantly more capacity and higher performance that the previous generation, LTO-8.
An LTO-8 cartridge offers 30 terabytes (TB) of compressed storage capacity and 12 TB of uncompressed capacity. Sustained data transfer rates are 750 megabytes per second (MBps) for compressed data and 360 MBps for uncompressed data.
LTO-5 cartridges have the capability of transferring data at a compressed rate of up to 280 MB per second (140 MB per second native). LTO-6 cartridges, on the other hand, have the enhanced capability of transferring data at a compressed rate of up to 400 MB per second (150 MB per second native).
LTO cleaning tape works by physically removing any debris that may have accumulated on the read/write head of your LTO drive. This is done by passing a small brush across the head, which then collects any particles and deposits them onto the cleaning tape.
LTO has lower nominal voltage of 2.4 V compared to LFP(3.2V) and NMC(3.7V), which leads to a lower specific energy (about 30–110 Wh/kg) than conventional lithium-ion battery(For LFP it is 90-165 wh/kg and for NMC around 270 wh/kg) technologies.
As seen in the table the price of the LTO cell per cycle is about 30% and less than that of LFP. This means the LFP technology is 3x and more expensive than the LTO technology. Additionally for high speed charging, the LFP technology does not support continued high speed charging and discharging.
Link Time Optimization (LTO) gives GCC the capability of dumping its internal representation (GIMPLE) to disk, so that all the different compilation units that make up a single executable can be optimized as a single module.
The LiFePO4 battery has the edge over lithium ion, both in terms of cycle life (it lasts 4-5x longer), and safety. This is a key advantage because lithium ion batteries can overheat and even catch fire, while LiFePO4 does not.
The "Zero-Strain-Material" used in our LTO batteries are designed for a life of 30,000 full depth-of-discharge cycles which is up to six times greater than competitive lithium-ion technologies, giving it a life-span of up to 30 years.
Tesla uses LFP batteries in its Model 3 Standard Range Plus and Model Y Standard Range models. Ford has announced plans to use LFP batteries in its Mustang Mach-E later this year, and the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck model will get them as an option next year.
Low gravimetric energy density is one of the biggest barriers of uptake for LTO batteries. Also known as specific energy, this property describes how much energy a battery can store, relative to its mass.
A disadvantage of lithium-titanate batteries is their lower inherent voltage (2.4 V), which leads to a lower specific energy (about 30–110 Wh/kg) than conventional lithium-ion battery technologies, which have an inherent voltage of 3.7 V.
LTO cells have a 97.5% charge discharge efficiency. Even at 2C operation the temperature rise due to internal losses is around 2 degrees Celsius. Other Lithium types are around 97%, other wet technologies such aa Vanadium are around 70% efficient.
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