Sony has made breakthrough thin-layer coating, surface smoothing process and newly developed technology in order to reliably deliver the LTO-7 data cartridge’s impressive 6TB native and 15TB compressed recording capacity.

LTO-7 data cartridges incorporate non-contact 16KB IC memory with twice the capacity of the previous generation. LTO-7 data cartridges enable high-speed data search and improved data management in libraries with the additional IC memory capacity.

Sony’s technology improvements significantly increase the stability of the rotating tape reel which enables stable, high-speed linear tape motion, necessary to realise the higher capacity and increased transfer speed of LTO-7 data cartridges.