HP LTO Ultrium series User Manual (English)

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The family of HP LTO Ultrium tape drives is HP's premier line of backup devices. Based on the LTO Ultrium format, an open standard

with a well-defined eight-generation roadmap, HP LTO Ultrium tape drives offer customers the best choice for investment protection.

With ultimate reliability and ease of use in mind, even at 100% duty cycles, HP's rugged design builds on superior LTO technology and

adds advanced features like hardware data encryption to create a new level of data protection. The tape drives employ dynamic data

rate matching to adjust to the speed of the host, reducing wear and tear on both drive and media and increasing performance, even on

slower hosts. HP's ultra-durable soft-load feature automatically positions the data cartridge together with the highly reliable HP

leader-capture mechanism make your backup and restore operations more reliable. Support for HP One-Button Disaster Recovery

provides the easiest way to restore data in the event of a disaster.

The family of tape drives also features support for HP Library and Tape Tools which provides HP TapeAssure health monitoring,

diagnostics, and performance optimization. Included with the HP LTO Ultrium tape drives is the option to download Yosemite Server

Backup Basic backup and recovery software providing a backup application to protect a single server. If data is critical to your business,

protect it with an HP LTO Ultrium tape drive.

HP StoreEver LTO Ultrium Full-Height Tape Drives

HP StoreEver LTO-6 Ultrium 6650 Tape Drive

HP LTO-6 Ultrium 6650 Tape Drive sets new standards for capacity, performance, usability and manageability. The Ultrium 6650 tape

drive represents HP's sixth-generation of LTO tape drive technology capable of storing up to 6.25TB (compressed 2.5:1) per cartridge

while providing enterprise tape drive monitoring and management capabilities with HP TapeAssure, ease of use with support for LTFS

and AES 256-bit hardware data encryption, easy-to-enable security to protect the most sensitive data and prevent unauthorized access

of tape cartridges. Capable of data transfer rates up to 400MB/sec (compressed 2.5:1), HP's exclusive Data Rate Matching feature

further optimizes performance by matching speed of host to keep drives streaming and increase the reliability of the drive and media.

The Ultrium 6650 provides investment protection with full read and write backward support with LTO-5 media, and the ability to read

LTO-4 cartridges. By more than doubling the compressed capacity of previous generation Ultrium drives, HP customers now require

fewer data cartridges to meet their storage needs, significantly reducing their IT costs and increasing their ROI.

HP StoreEver LTO-6 Ultrium 6650 External Tape Drive

HP StoreEver LTO-6 Ultrium 6650 Internal Tape Drive

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HP StoreEver LTO Ultrium Tape Drives

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HP LTO Ultrium series Specifications

General

Generations	LTO-1 to LTO-9
Capacity (Compressed)	Varies by generation (e.g., LTO-9: 45 TB)
Capacity (Native)	Varies by generation (e.g., LTO-9: 18 TB)
Transfer Rate (Compressed)	Varies by generation (e.g., LTO-9: 1000 MB/s)
Transfer Rate (Native)	Varies by generation (e.g., LTO-9: 400 MB/s)
Encryption	AES 256-bit
WORM Capability	Yes
Interface	SAS
Form Factor	Half-height
Backward Read Compatibility	Two generations back
Backward Write Compatibility	One generation back
Partitioning Support	Yes
Power Consumption (Idle)	Varies by model (e.g., ~10-15 W)
Power Consumption (Operating)	Varies by model
Backward Compatibility	Read and write compatible with one previous generation, read compatible with two previous generations (varies by generation)