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LTO-5 Ultrium OK. Tape may be quite dull and certainly very old as technology goes, but it’s far from past it. In fact, it’s turning out to be something of a hero.  Without tape, the world’s biggest computer users would be stuck – with no practical way to archive billions of bytes of information.  Supercomputer users like Argonne National Labs or CERN’s Large Hadron Collider project generate millions of gigabytes annually. And for every giantcomputer user, there are thousands more smaller organisations running out of space and ideas about how to keep their information safe and sound. It’s estimated that by 2015, internet traffic may be fifty times greater than in 2006.  So rather than waste time exploring alternatives, HP has continued to invest indeveloping high performance, LTO tape media. The latest HP Ultrium LTO-5 storage solution can archive 3.0 TB on a single tape, at a transfer rate of280 MB/second. And it won’t stop there. It costs next to nothing to keep it in a library. And on those rareoccasions when you need it again, you can count on getting all the databack. Extreme environmental, drop, shock and vibration testing in thereal world and in HP’s labs prove it far beyond user expectations,with a guaranteed archival life of 30 years.  So for large-scale archives, it’s always tape. With the capacity tocompress and store vast amounts of data, fully compliant with international legislation, the LTO format is widely supported by majorvendors and computer users as an essential component of tiered storage strategies. And it remains one of the pillars of HP’s storage portfolio.