IBM LTO9 Ultrium 9 Data Cartridge 02XW568

The IBM LTO9 Ultrium Data Cartridge 02XW568 stores up to 18TB in native or uncompressed capacity at speeds of up to 400MB/sec, and up to 45TB of compressed data at speeds up to 1,000MB/sec or 1GB/sec. That is up to 1.38TB per hour for native/uncompressed data or up to 3.24TB per hour for compressed data. The IBM LTO Ultrium 9 tape cartridge has encryption, LTFS support and continues the use of Barium Ferrite (BaFe) particles which improves reliability, longevity and density. The IBM LTO-9 data cartridge has a length of 1,035m (1.03km), a width of 12.65mm and has 8,960 tracks using a 32 track serpentine head.  The IBM LTO 9 Ultrium tape is designed to be used in all brands of LTO9 or LTO Ultrium 9 tape drives and libraries, and these LTO9 drives can also read and write to LTO8 data cartridges. High resolution 4K and 8K video, Big Data, and the ever increasing data requirements of business make the IBM LTO9 tape a perfect solution for a more reliable and cheaper archive, low access storage and managed storage.

For further information view the IBM LTO9 Tape Media Data Sheet

For the option of LTO barcode labels attached to your tapes please see Application of Tape Barcode Labels for details. This would then become the IBM LTO Ultrium Generation 9 data cartridge pre-labelled 02XW568L.

Drives that use the IBM LTO Ultrium 9 data cartridges are recommended to use the IBM LTO Ultrium Universal Cleaning Cartridge to keep the drive clean.

Recommended Operational Environment for IBM LTO-9 Data Cartridges

• Operational Temperature: 15-25 degrees centigrade
• Operational Humidity: 20-50% Relative Humidity
• Operational Max Wet Bulb/Dew Point: 22 degrees centigrade

Recomended Storage Environment for IBM LTO-9 Data Cartridges 

• Storage Temperature: 15-25 degrees centigrade
• Storage Humidity: 20-50% Relative Humidity
• Storage Max Wet Bulb/Dew Point: 22 degrees centigrade

Allowable Operational Environment for IBM LTO-9 Data Cartridges

• Operational Temperature: 15-35 degrees centigrade
• Operational Humidity: 20-80% Relative Humidity
• Operational Max Wet Bulb/Dew Point: 22 degrees centigrade

Allowable Storage Environment for IBM LTO-9 Data Cartridges 

• Storage Temperature: 15-35 degrees centigrade
• Storage Humidity: 20-80% Relative Humidity
• Storage Max Wet Bulb/Dew Point: 22 degrees centigrade