Quantum LTO 7 Tape with Custom Barcode Label (BaFe) MR-L7MQN-01-BC

Quantum LTO 7 Tapes with Custom Barcode Label - MR-L7MQN-01-BC

Quantum LTO 7 Ultrium Tape (MR-L7MQN-01) with a Barcode Label customized to your library or autoloader and the alpha-numeric sequence you specify.

Quantum LTO 7 Tape media cartridges are manufactured to the highest industry standards for quality and reliability, ensuring low error rates, high performance and long-term durability. Quantum LTO 7 media allows you to archive your data with confidence.

Features and Benefits

• 1 - Quantum LTO 7 Tape (MR-L7MQN-01) with Storage Capacity of 6TB and up to 15 TB compressed capacity.
• 1 - LTO 7 Barcode Label. Customized to your library or autoloader and your alpha-numeric sequence
• Supports transfer speeds of 300 MB/s (native), 750 MB/s (2.5:1) with Generation 7
• Barium Ferrite (BaFe) technology
• Support for tape drive hardware encryption
• Compatible with Linear Tape File System (LTFS)
• Simplified tape path to reduce wear and tear.
• Limited Lifetime Warranty from Quantum

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
LTO-7 Tape Media Formatted for use in LTO-8 Tape Drives

What is LTO-7 (M8)?

• LTO-T M-8 Tape Media is a new LTO technology feature with the name of “LTO-8 Type M Formatted LTO-7 Media”. For simplicity, this feature is also known as “M8”.
• LTO-8 drives include a new format feature enabling customers to increase the capacity of new, unused LTO Ultrium 7 cartridges by up to 50 percent to store up to 9 TB (uncompressed) or 22.5 TB (2.5:1 compressed) of data.

Can the customer use any LTO-7 cartridge to be LTO-7 (M8), or do they have to buy a specific one?

• Customers can use any LTO-7 cartridge so long as it is new and unused. The formatted LTO-7 (M8) cartridges cannot be read by LTO-7 tape drives, so it’s important that customers format, label and handle the LTO-7 (M8) tapes accordingly.

How will LTO 8 libraries, autoloaders and customers know which tapes are standard LTO-7 and which are LTO-7 (M8)?

• The tapes will need to be bar coded correctly. Standard LTO tape barcodes use a L# media ID designator at the end of the label to indicate the LTO generation. For example, “L7” indicates a standard LTO-7 tape cartridge and “L8” a standard LTO-8 cartridge. The LTO-7 (M8) cartridges use bar code labels that have an “M8” media ID.
• The media ID is the two right most characters printed on a bar code label. The media ID indicates the media type to the drive.

Is this M8 type compatibility available on other generations of LTO tape drives?

• No, this new feature is only available with LTO-8 Tape drives.

Will this M8 type capability be available with LTO-9 and future generations?

• That has not yet been determined by the LTO consortium

What is the benefit of the LTO-7 (M8) tape media?

• Customers with new, unused LTO-7 tapes cab get 50% more capacity on each tape with an LTO-8 tape drive
• The $/TB cost may be better with LTO-7 (M8) compared to LTO-8.

All prior LTO generations have supported 2-generation back read support, why won't LTO-8 drives?

• After seven generations, and 17 years of shipments, LTO needed a technology transition to support the higher storage densities and performatnce demanded by today's data storage needs.  This transition includes both the media technology and the read/write tape head technology of the drives.  The cost to support 2-generation read capability, and the new LTO-9 capacity and performance made this support infeasible.