ORACLE STORAGETEK
Oracle StorageTek LTO7 M8 Ultrium Type M Pre-barcoded Data Cartridge
- SKU:
- LTO-ORA7M8
- MPN:
- 7114787-U
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- This item is usually in stock and therefore ships within 24 hours of receiving the order, unless it is a weekend/public holiday, it will be shipped on the next business day.
- Minimum Purchase:
- 1 unit
Description
The Oracle StorageTek LTO7 M8 Ultrium Type M Pre-barcoded Data Cartridge supports up to 9TB of native or uncompressed capacity, with a maximum of 22.5TB of compressed data. The Oracle LTO 7 M8 cartridge offers a higher write speed of 360MB/sec for native data and a maximum speed of up to 900MB/sec when writing in compressed mode. The Oracle LTO7 M8 tape cartridge is, in fact, an LTO7 tape cartridge with a special barcode applied to enable it to be used in an LTO8 library drive, offering higher capacity and speed.
The Oracle LTO7 M8 tape is not pre-initialised and therefore if the LTO8 drive and library have to have the latest release of firmware and the tape has the correct M8 barcode, the LTO8 drive in the tape library will initialise it as an LTO7 M8 or Type M tape with higher capacity and speed than the LTO7 tape it originally was. This will not work with LTO7 tapes used previously or with LTO8 drives that do not have the latest firmware version applied. Always check with your LTO8 tape drive or library manufacturer to ensure it can initialise the tapes.