The product with part number 46X1290 is an IBM LTO Ultrium 5 Data Cartridge, a high-capacity blank data tape used for enterprise data storage, backup, and archival.
Product Description
The IBM 46X1290 is a fifth-generation (LTO-5) Linear Tape-Open (LTO) media, designed to meet the growing demands for reliable and high-capacity data retention. It features advanced partitioning capabilities and is compatible with LTO Generation 5 tape drives and libraries from IBM and other compliant suppliers.
Key Features:
- Capacity: Provides 1.5 TB of native storage capacity, expandable up to 3.0 TB with 2:1 data compression.
- Performance: Supports a native data transfer rate of up to 140 MB/s, which can reach 280 MB/s when compressed.
- Durability and Archival Life: Engineered for reliability, it has an estimated archival life of 30 years and can withstand 20,000 load/unload cycles.
- Technology: Utilizes Metal Particle (MP) tape material and includes an embedded LTO Cartridge Memory (LTO-CM) chip for faster data transfer during loading and unloading.
- Security: Supports LTO hardware encryption standards when used with encryption-enabled drives.
- Physical Identifier: The cartridge is a distinct burgundy/brown color to easily distinguish it from previous LTO generations.
- Variants: Available in both standard rewritable (RW) and Write Once, Read Many (WORM) models, which help with compliance requirements
