Fun Facts about LTO/Ultrium Technologies

An Ultrium™ tape drive can offer sustained data transfer of up to 15MB per second, a two to three times increase over leading older tape technologies.

LTO Technology is an "open format" technology, which means users have multiple sources of products and media.

The capacity of Imation Black Watch™ Ultrium cartridges is so extensive, a single cartridge could hold the complete works of Shakespeare more than 15 times.

The LTO Cartridge Memory chip can be read with an external reader, allowing access to system information without having to insert the cartridge into a tape drive.

LTO technology provides two levels of error correction that can help in recovery from longitudinal media scratches.

The advanced LTO compression method allows automatic compression of data without user intervention.