Fujifilm LTO8 Ultrium8 12TB/30TB Data Cartridge 71040

The Fuji LTO8 tape cartridge, or Fujifilm LTO Ultrium8 Data Cartridge 71040, stores up to 12TB in native or uncompressed capacity at speeds up to 360MB/sec, and up to 30TB of compressed data at speeds up to 750MB/sec. That is up to 1.38TB per hour for native/uncompressed data or up to 3.24TB per hour for compressed data. The Fuji LTO 8 data cartridge continues to use Barium Ferrite (BaFe) particles, which improve reliability, longevity, and density. These BaFe magnetic particles measure only about 20nm, allowing a large number of particles to be laid on the same surface. This significantly increases an areal recording density, thereby dramatically boosting the tape’s storage
capacity and reliability. While the primary cause of magnetic tape degradation is oxidation, because BaFe magnetic particles are already ferric oxide, they will not undergo further oxidation. This is why BaFe tape offers superior archivability. Fujifilm’s accelerated testing has shown that the LTO Ultrium 8 tape offers stable data storage for more than 50 years.

The Fujifilm LTO8 data cartridge is 960m long and has 32 track head serpentine with a total of 6,656 tracks. This tape supports Encryption and LTFS. Tape with LTFS (Linear Tape File System) is an industry-standard, self-describing format that allows tape media to be accessed like a hard drive or USB flash drive. It partitions the tape to create a file system index, enabling drag-and-drop file access without proprietary backup software, simplifying data archiving and portability across Windows, Linux, and macOS. The LTO 8 cartridge has 130,816 bits (16,352 bytes) of memory, an internal EEPROM with an electromagnetic induction antenna (basically an RFID chip) that stores information about the files stored (index) and tape errors written by the tape drive itself. The Veritape LTO Ultrium cartridge analyser reads this data to allow tape users to weed out problematic tapes and identify drives that may be becoming faulty or out of spec. It also matches the tape serial number and barcode label, so tapes cannot be substituted.

The Fuji LTO8 tape cartridges are the most commonly used LTO tapes, only behind the Fujifilm LTO9 and LTO10 in capacity and speed. The Fuji LTO8 cartridges can be used to read or write data in any LTO8 or LTO Ultrium 8 tape drive or library, or any LTO9 or LTO Ultrium 9 tape drive or library.

For the option of LTO barcode labels attached to your tapes, please see Application of Tape Barcode Labels for details.
Drives that use the FujiFilm/Fuji LTO Ultrium 8 data cartridges are recommended to use the Fuji LTO Ultrium Universal Cleaning Cartridge to keep the drive clean.

Stutch Data is an authorised distributor & reseller of Fujifilm ANZ products, and the products we supply carry the Fujifilm ANZ warranty. See the detailed warranty information in the panel above. 

High-resolution 4K and 8K video, along with the ever-increasing data requirements of businesses, make the Fuji LTO8 tape an ideal solution for cost-effective archiving, low-access storage, and managed storage.

Storage & Operational Requirements for Fujifilm LTO8 Ultrium tape cartridges

LTO cartridges should not be used or stored outside these parameters

• Operational Environment Temperature: 10-45 degrees centigrade
• Operational Environmental Humidity: 10-80% relative humidity
• Short Term Storage Environment Temperature: 16-35 degrees centigrade
• Short Term Storage Environmental Humidity: 20-80% relative humidity (no condensation)
• Archival Storage (long-term) Environment Temperature: 16-25 degrees centigrade
• Archival Storage (long-term) Environment Humidity: 20-50% relative humidity (no condensation)
• Wet Bulb Environment Temperature (Operational, Short & Long Term Storage): not to exceed 26 degrees centigrade maximum

Fujifilm Model Number: LTO FB UL-8 12.0T J