This document summarizes the specifications and benefits of LTO-7 tape technology, which provides a significant increase in capacity and transfer rates over previous generations of LTO tape. Some key points: - LTO-7 is estimated to provide native capacity of 6-6.4 TB per cartridge, a 156% increase over LTO-6, and compressed capacity of up to 16TB. - Transfer rates are also greatly increased, with native rates of 300-315 MB/sec, a 97% increase over LTO-6, and compressed rates up to 788 MB/sec. - The higher capacity and speeds enable much more efficient data archiving, allowing far larger volumes to be transferred in

1. The Next Leap Forward
LTO-7
Bob Cone
Product Specialist
Spectra Logic

2. • Over 3 Decades of Technology Innovation
– Privately held corporation founded in 1979
– Debt free since inception
– 100% employee owned
• Storage Industry Leadership
– Founding member: Active Archive Alliance
– Founding member: Tape Council
– Standard member: SNIA
– Standard member: Object Storage Alliance
• Worldwide Presence
– HQ’s located in Boulder, CO – Bracknell, UK – Melbourne, AUS
– Over 450 employees in 11 countries
– Over 20,000 libraries installed in over 50 countries
Partnering with Spectra

3. A Long and Trusted Roadmap: LTO Ultrium
The industry standard for tape technology
Spectra Logic Estimated LTO Roadmap based upon best available market information.
• Target Availability Calendar Q4 2015

4. LTO-7 Specifications
Native Capacity 6 to 6.4 TB*
Compressed Capacity Up to 16 TB
Native Transfer Rate 300 to 315 MB/sec*
Compressed Transfer Rate Up to 788 MB/sec
Read/Write Compatibility Read/Write Compatible with LTO-6, Read
compatible with LTO-5
Channel Interfaces Fibre Channel 8 Gb/sec, SAS 6 Gb/sec
Tape Head 32 Channels
Media BaFe Formulation
*Spectra Logic estimated specifications based upon best available market information

5. LTO-7 Specs Compared to Previous Generations
Generation LTO-2 LTO-3 LTO-4 LTO-5 LTO-6 LTO-7
Year 2002 2004 2007 2010 2012 2015
Max Data rate
(native)
35 MB/s 80 MB/s 120 MB/s 140 MB/s 160 MB/s 315 MB/s
97% increase
Capacity
(native)
200 GB 400 GB 800 GB 1.5TB 2.5TB 6.4TB
156% increase
Data Rates: Up 125% Over LTO-5
Up 97% Over LTO-6
Capacity: Up 327% Over LTO-5
Up 156% Over LTO-6

6. LTO Capacity by Generation
0.8
1.5
2.5
6
1.6
3
6.25
15
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
LTO-4 LTO-5 LTO-6 LTO-7
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Capacity Comparison
Native
Compressed
Note: This is based on compressed capacity of 15 TB capacity.

7. LTO Transfer Rate by Generation
120
140
160
300
240
280
400
750
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
LTO-4 LTO-5 LTO-6 LTO-7
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Transfer Rate Comparison
Native
Compressed
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Note: This is based on compressed performance of 750 MB/sec.

8. What Do the Numbers Mean?
Move 100 terabytes of data within 8 hour window:
8
13 tape drives and 34 cartridges
needed
Note: This is based on compressed performance of 750 MB/sec and compressed capacity of 15 TB. Compression on LTO-5 is 2:1. The ratio for LTO-7 is estimated
at 2.5:1 .
LTO-5 LTO-7
Only 5 drives and 7 cartridges needed
OR, with the same number of drives
the 8 hour window could be cut to
under 2 hours 51 minutes!
= Drives
= Cartridges

9. LTO-7 Leapfrogs Oracle T10000 D
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
LTO-7 T10000D
6.4
8
Capacity TB
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
LTO-7 T10000D
315
252
Performance MB/Sec

10. LTO-7’s New Head Technology
• LTO-6 worked with a 16 channel head
• LTO-7: 32 channel TS technology head actuator
– Much higher data rates
– Time reduction of ~ 50% to write/read a cartridge
– Reduced head and tape wear

11. New Media for a New Generation
• Metal Particle – Generations 1 through 6
• BaFe provides greater linear density because:
– smaller particle size
– higher Signal-to-Noise ratio
• Oxidation

12. How can we use a
bigger, faster tape?

13. Consider the Archive…
• Large volumes of data coming from primary storage
• “Active Archives” keep data available though the
primary storage pool even though they’re on tape
Media Server or
Archive Product
Primary Storage
Tape Disk
Primary or Secondary
Storage

14. Consider the Cloud…
• Key elements:
– HTTP & Object Storage
• The beauty of https://www
• REST Architecture
• RESTful API’s
• GET
• PUT
• LIST
• DELETE

15. Created by Amazon, S3 simplifies web storage
- Proven technology and wide adoption (2+ trillion objects)
- Many clients and client developers
S3 (Simple Storage Service)

16. Building a RESTful API for Tape
+
Sequential
Media Support
+
Removable
Media Support
=
Deep
Simple Storage Services
Tape & Disk
Storage Domain
Disk
Storage Domain
Simple Storage
Services

17. Object Store Attributes
• Flat Structure
• Identified by Unique Object ID
• Metadata can be Enhanced by User or Application
• Metadata and Physical Data are Separated
ID 2ID 1 ID 3 ID 4 ID 5

18. Tape as a Private Cloud Storage
Buckets
DS3 Enabled
Applications
https
10 – 100† GigE
On Premise or Remote
Objects
to
Deep
Storage

19. The Roadmap is Larger Than You Think
• Fujifilm and IBM Announcement
– May 19th, 2014
– Approximately 62 times more capacity than LTO-6
– Increased density of 85.9 Gb/in² compared to 2 Gb/in²
with LTO-6
– Demoed a 154 TB tape
– Expected availability 2024

20. Spectra’s LTO-7 Pre Purchase Program
• Announced: 3/2/2015
• A Spectra exclusive: Buy LTO-6 today…
Free upgrade to LTO-7 at GA
– Small premium for pre-purchase option when you buy LTO-
6 today
– When LTO-7 becomes available, get new drives with
no additional cost
– Manage a single budget/purchase cycle approval –
no paperwork for LTO-7
– Migrate earlier LTO-5 data with no additional drive cost
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21. Library
Native Capacity
TB
Native
Throughput
TB/Hr
T50e 320 4.5
T120 768 11.3
T200 1,280 9.1
T380 2,432 13.6
T680 4,288 13.6
T950 65,280 136.1
TFinity 320,640 136.1
Capacity calculated at 6.4 TB and performance at 315 MB/sec

22. QUESTIONS?
SpectraLogic.com/LTO-7