HPE LTO Ultrium-9 18TB RW Data Cartridge with Case, Light Blue

What sets the HPE LTO Ultrium-9 18TB RW Data Cartridge apart is its superior data protection capabilities, making it an invaluable asset for businesses seeking to safeguard their data against cyber threats and ransomware. This light blue cartridge, complete with a case, is designed to meet global law enforcement recommendations for maintaining offline data copies, thus creating a secure air gap to deter cybercriminals.

Built on a legacy of nine generations, the LTO Ultrium-9 cartridge offers impressive native transfer speeds of up to 1.44 TB/h. This makes it a cost-effective solution for businesses of all sizes, providing a platform for every budget. The cartridge also features secure AES-256 encryption, ensuring the highest levels of data security and compliance with stringent industry regulations to prevent unauthorized data access.

The HPE LTO Ultrium-9 cartridge is equipped with HPE StoreOpen and Linear Tape File System, making the use of tape as straightforward, flexible, and intuitive as using other removable and shareable media, such as a USB drive. Moreover, the minimal additional power and cooling requirements of LTO cartridges at rest make them a more sustainable, long-term archival solution for your data.

The LTO Ultrium-9 cartridge boasts a significant increase in capacity, offering 620% more native capacity than the LTO-6 version. It also provides an increase in native performance, with the ability to store 1.44 TB/hr using the full-height only feature. The built-in AES 256-bit encryption, available from LTO-5 to LTO-9, has been granted FIPS140-2 Level 1 certification, further enhancing data security.

The cartridge also offers the lowest total cost of ownership for long-term archiving, making it a more economical choice over all-disk or all-cloud solutions for a 1 PB archive growing at 10% per annum. The open standard technology ensures compatibility across product generations and gives you more choice. HPE LTO Ultrium cartridges are available as custom labeled or non-custom labeled, and undergo rigorous HPE brand qualification test procedures for maximum reliability.

The HPE LTO-9 Ultrium data cartridges can write or read data at a blistering native 1.44 TB/hour, storing, encrypting, and protecting up to 45 TB on a single cartridge. This makes it ideal for large-scale, 24x7, mission-critical IT environments. The cartridge also features a superior 'smart grabber' mechanism and mechanical interlock to prevent the leader pin from being pulled inside the tape housing, while sensors detect proper connection and prevent leader loss that would ruin the tape. The simplified tape path reduces wear, tear, and build-up of debris, crucial in automation.

In summary, the HPE LTO Ultrium-9 18TB RW Data Cartridge offers a reliable, secure, and cost-effective solution for data storage and protection, making it an essential tool for businesses in the digital age.