Quantum LTO Ultrium data sheet

LTO Ultrium

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Meeting the Needs of a Broad Market

WHY CHOOSE QUANTUM LTO ULTRIUM MEDIA

• Quantum’s LTO Ultrium media is
manufactured to the highest industry standards
for quality and reliability—ensuring high
performance and durability, whether used for
primary backup or long-term archive.

• A pioneer of the LTO Consortium, Quantum is
committed to the continued development of the
LTO platform. Quantum’s comprehensive media
quality monitoring and extensive interoperability
testing ensures cross-platform compatibility,
optimal performance, and reliability whether
you’re using a Quantum tape drive, library, or
other LTO-compatible hardware.

• Quantum’s LTO Ultrium media is compliant
with all media integrity analysis utilities. You
can add another level of protection throughout
the lifecycle of your data with the Advanced
Media Usage Report and Extended Data Life
Management (EDLM) features available in
Quantum LTO Ultrium media. Media analysis
and usage reports provide a view of the
media condition for an entire media pool used
within a specific tape library, even those in
off-site storage. EDLM is a unique Scalar®
automation feature designed to ensure the
media integrity of cartridges placed in long­term archival or vaulted storage that are no
longer used during normal operations. When
your critical data is involved, it’s important to
have a complete health record of your media.

• LTO Ultrium Write Once, Read Many (WORM)
media cartridges are available to meet
today’s stringent regulatory and compliance
requirements. Combined with native AES
256-bit encryption on LTO-8, LTO-7, LTO-6,
LTO-5, and LTO-4 drives, WORM cartridges
physically prevent data from being overwritten
or tampered with once it is written to the
device—providing a reliable, accurate, and
scalable data integrity solution.

• Quantum’s LTO media offering supports
your comprehensive, “edge-to-core”
backup, recovery, and archive strategy.
When you use Quantum media and hardware,
you get the added assurance of over 30 years
of storage experience and service behind the
entire solution.

SAVE TIME AND MONEY WITH QUANTUM’S
COMPLIMENTARY VALUEADDED SERVICES

Quantum is performing additional process and
quality tests on its LTO Ultrium data media,
demonstrating our continuing commitment to
provide the highest quality LTO media. Quantum
Certification focuses on five key user metrics:
capacity, transfer rate, servo, and green media
characteristics, with specific emphasis on
testing the durability of the written data.

Have you ever spent hours unpacking, labeling,
and loading media into your library? Why waste
IT resources unpacking boxes and labeling
cartridges? Your time and your data are
valuable. We understand that.

• Allow Quantum to pre-label your data
cartridges with your requested bar code label
sequences and color scheme. They will arrive
ready to load into the library.

No need for individual cartridge cases? No
problem! We offer “library packaging” to save
you time.

• This eco-friendly bulk packaging option
protects cartridges during shipment and
storage without the individual cartridge cases.
This allows quicker access to the cartridges to
expedite loading into automation slots/trays—
and it results in less waste.

Combine bar code labeling with library
packaging and save even more time!

FEATURES & BENEFITS

High Storage Capacity

Up to 12 TB native and up to
30 TB* compressed

Up to 30-Year Archival Life

Compliant with All Media Integrity
Analysis Utilities

Adds another level of data protection

Write Once, Read Many (WORM)

Addresses today’s tough regulatory and
compliance needs

High Performance

A high-durability non-contact IC
memory chip up to 16 KB is built in; this
contributes to significant improvement in
tape library access and health reporting

Bar Code Labeling and Library Packaging

Available to quickly load automation
slots/trays

Over 30 Years of Storage Experience

Demonstrated top performance and
innovation in hardware and media products

* Based on 2.5:1 compression (LTO-8, LTO-7, and LTO-6),

2:1 compression (other LTO)

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

BASIC GENERATION SPECIFICATIONS

Ultrium 8
Ultrium 8 WORM

Drive Compatibility LTO-8

LTO-8 WORM

Cartridge Color Brick Red

Brick Red/Gray

Capacity

12/30 TB

1

(Native/Compressed)

Tape Length 960 m (3,150 ft) 960 m (3,150 ft) 846 m (2,776 ft) 846 m (2,776 ft) 820 m (2,690 ft) 680 m (2,231 ft) 319 m (1,046.59 ft)

3

Ultrium 7
Ultrium 7 WORM

LTO-7
LTO-7 WORM

Purple
Purple/Gray

1

6/15 TB
(12/22.5 TB3)

Ultrium 6
Ultrium 6 WORM

LTO-6
LTO-6 WORM

Black
Black/Gray

2,500/6,250 GB

1

Ultrium 5
Ultrium 5 WORM

LTO-5
LTO-5 WORM

Brick Red
Brick Red/Gray

1,500/3,000 GB

2

Ultrium 4
Ultrium 4 WORM

LTO-4
LTO-4 WORM

Green
Green/Gray

800/1,600 GB

2

Ultrium 3
Ultrium 3 WORM

LTO-3
LTO-3 WORM

Blue
Blue/Gray

400/800 GB

2

Ultrium Universal
Cleaning

All

Black

Maximum 50 cleanings–
drive dependent

DIMENSIONS

Tape Width 12.65 mm (0.50 in)
Cartridge Dimensions (W x H x L) 21.5 mm x 105.4 mm x102.0 mm

(0.85 in x 4.15 in x 4.02 in)

OPERATING ENVIRONMENT

Temperature 10 °C to 45 °C (50 °F to 113 °F)
Humidity 10% to 80% RH

READ/WRITE COMPATIBILITY

An Ultrium drive can read and write data to prior LTO generations:

Drive Type LTO-8 LTO-7 LTO-6 LTO-5 LTO-4 LTO-3

LTO-8 R/W LTO-7 R/W LTO-6 R/W LTO-5 R/W LTO-4 R/W LTO-3 R/W

Read/Write
Compatible
Media

3

LTO8 TYPE M FORMATTED LTO7 MEDIA

LTO-8 drives include a new format feature enabling customers to increase the
capacity of new or unused LTO Ultrium 7 cartridges by up to 50 percent to store 9 TB
(uncompressed) or 22.5 TB1 (compressed) of data. To unlock this additional capacity,
customers need an LTO-8 drive with a utility or application to up-format new or unused
LTO Ultrium 7 cartridges with properly attached “M8” media ID bar code labels.

LTO-7

R/W LTO-6 R/W LTO-5 R/W LTO-4 R/W LTO-3 R/W LTO-2 R/W

(M8)

LTO-7 R/W LTO-5

R
Only

LTO-4

R
Only

LTO-3

R
Only

LTO-2

R
Only

LTO-1

R
Only

STORAGE ENVIRONMENT  NONARCHIVE

Ultrium 8, 7, 6, and 5 Ultrium 4, 3, 2, and Cleaning
Temperature 16 °C to 35 °C (61 °F to 95 °F) 16 °C to 32 °C (61 °F to 90 °F)
Humidity 20% to 80% RH 20% to 80% RH

STORAGE ENVIRONMENT  ARCHIVE

Temperature 16 °C to 25 °C (61 °F to 77 °F)
Humidity 20% to 50% RH

(Not applicable for cleaning cartridge)

LTO ULTRIUM MEDIA PRODUCT SERVICE AND SUPPORT

Quantum LTO Ultrium cartridge tapes are free from defects in material and
manufacturing at the time of purchase. This limited lifetime warranty extends to the
original end-user purchaser of the product and is not assignable or transferable to any
subsequent purchaser or end user. Visit www.quantum.com for more information.

¹ Based on 2.5:1 compression

2

Based on 2:1 compression

Model Numbers and Descriptions

Standard WORM

Labeled

Ultrium 8 MR-L8MQN-01 MR-L8MQN-02 MR-L8MQN-BC MR-L8WQN-BC MR-L8MQN-20 MR-L8LQN-BC
Ultrium 7 MR-L7MQN-01 MR-L7MQN-02 MR-L7MQN-BC MR-L7WQN-BC MR-L7MQN-20 MR-L7LQN-BC

Bar Code

Ultrium 6

MR-L6MQN-03 MR-L6WQN-04 MR-L6MQN-BL MR-L6WQN-BL MR-L6LQN-LP MR-L6LQN-BL

Ultrium 5 MR-L5MQN-01 MR-L5MQN-02 MR-L5MQN-BC MR-L5WQN-BC MR-L5MQN-20 MR-L5LQN-BC
Ultrium 4 MR-L4MQN-01 MR-L4MQN-02 MR-L4MQN-BC MR-L4WQN-BC MR-L4MQN-20 MR-L4LQN-BC
Ultrium 3 MR-L3MQN-01 MR-L3MQN-02 MR-L3MQN-BC MR-L3WQN-BC MR-L3MQN-20 MR-L3LQN-BC
Ultrium 2 MR-L2MQN-01 MR-L2MQN-BC
Ultrium Cleaning MR-LUCQN-01 MR-LUCQN-BC

ABOUT QUANTUM

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and preserving digital assets over the entire data lifecycle. From small businesses to major enterprises, more than 100,000
customers have trusted Quantum to address their most demanding data workflow challenges. Quantum's end-to-end, tiered
storage foundation enables customers to maximize the value of their data by making it accessible whenever and wherever
needed, retaining it indefinitely and reducing total cost and complexity. See how at www.quantum.com/customerstories.

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Bar Code
Labeled – WORM Library Pack

Bar Code Labeled
Library Pack

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