FUJIFILM is launching the LTO Ultrium 7 Data Cartridge (LTO7), offering storage capacity of 15TB (6.0 TB for non-compressed data) and data transfers of 750 MB/sec (300 MB/sec. for non-compressed data). Magnetic tapes are used at major data centers, thanks to their storage capacity, portability, energy efficiency, total cost of ownership and suitability for long-term storage.

The FUJIFILM LTO Ultrium 7 use BaFe magnetic particles, which are suitable for long-term storage. The high coercivity, high signal to noise ratio and superior frequency characteristics make BaFe magnetic particles a technology that can help further increase the capacity of magnetic tape.

With LTO7, Fujifilm has further developed its proprietary BaFe magnetic particle technology and "NANOCUBIC technology," expanding storage capacity to about 2.4 times that of LTO6 at 15.0 TB for compressed data and making data transfers approximately 1.9 times faster, reaching 750 MB/sec for compressed data. Compared with LTO5, LTO6 capacity and transfer speed have increased by 1.7 and 1.1 times, respectively. The increase in performance from LTO6 to LTO7, however, vastly surpasses this gap. In order to boost the product's storage capacity, Fujifilm has achieved high-precision magnetic particle dispersion, has made the magnetic layers thinner, and has reduced minor defects for a better error rate. In this way, Fujifilm has increased recording density by more than two times compared to LTO6. Furthermore, appropriate material design has allowed the company to boost durability and tracking performance, while at the same time making the tape layers thinner and improving storage capacity.

Key specifications:

• Capacity: 6.0 TB (15 TB) at 2.5x compression
• Transfer rate: 300MB/s ( 750MB/s at 2.5x compression)
• Number of tracks: 3,584 (32 track heads)
• Cartridge memory: 130,816Bits (16,352 byte); Internal EEPROM
• Tape width: 12.65 mm
• Tape thickness: 5.6 μm
• Tape length: 960 m