The white paper "Oracle's StorageTek LTO-5 Tape Drive: Industry Leading Scalability discusses Oracle's tiered storage strategy and the important role that tape plays in that scheme. Specifically, the new StorageTek LTO-5 tape drive streams data at over 140 MB/sec (uncompressed) as compared to the competitive technologies that are only capable of rates below 50 MB/s. Further, the StorageTek LTO-5 is the first tape drive to offer 150 petabytes of storage capacity in a single tape library when it is coupled with Oracle's StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System.

The white paper argues that Oracle's StorageTek SL-series libraries, coupled with the StorageTek LTO-5 tape drive, increase a user's data capacity by up to 89% within the same footprint. The LTO-5 boosts capacity significantly, ensuring a continuing role in data storage and management for tape technology and offering investment protection and scalability for the enterprise that adopts it.

The paper points out that the LTO-5 tape drive is capable of writing back a generation and reading back two generations of media while saving up to 48% in energy over its predecessor, the LTO-4. This impressive savings was achieved even as capacity was nearly doubled. Yet further savings accrue to customers through this remarkable level of media reuse.

Oracle's StorageTek LTO-5 tape drives are available across Oracle's award winning tape portfolio, from the enterprise to the desktop, according to the white paper, offering an industry-leading data protection and archiving solution for the enterprise's mission-critical data.

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