The preservation and the recording of critical data & information are important for the enterprises nowadays. It was the year 1994 when the DLT technology came into the market and it was pioneer to introduce the digital tape media that was double coated.DLT tape format has
According to the roadmap of the LTO, the fifth generation LTO-5 will be launched into the market by the year 2009 that will offer 3.23 TB compressed data recording capacity and 360 MB/second of data transfer speed. The sixth generation will provide
With the use of LTO-4 tape format, the enterprises can reduce the number of tape cartridges in the library because of the high storage capacity of LTO4 tape cartridge.The encryption technology of the LTO 4 tape format provides protection to the valuable data and information from unauthorized access and theft.
The USB external hard drives that are now being manufactured have storage capacity of 750GB and above. The external drives are portable.On the other hand, the cost of the external hard drives is lower than the flash memories and cards having the similar storage capacity.
The Symmetric Phase Recording head of the DLT tape drive uses an alternating angel for writing adjacent tracks.Therefore, the “guard bands” are not needed because the cross track interference is eliminated by the SPR. So, the widths of the track become narrow in DLT backup data tape. Narrow tracks of