Spectra Certified Tape Media
Patented technology maintains tape media operating at peak performance
Overview
You now have access to the most reliable tape media on the market with Spectra Certified Tape Media. Rest assured; extra care is taken during every step of the manufacturing process to ensure you have the most reliable and automated tape storage possible. Our technology guarantees your certified tape media is delivered ready for peak performance and continuously monitored for quality to protect your data. Every cartridge is cleaned, tested, and verified to pass the highest quality standard before use. You also get a lifetime warranty because we are confident in the media’s quality.
The ROI benefits of using certified tape media go far beyond safeguarding your data. Along with enhanced protection, you also enjoy prolonged tape drive life, reduced need for manual handling, and the convenience of pre-calibrated LTO-9 media. Our TeraPacks enable bulk loading into Spectra tape libraries, and we provide you with pre-applied bar codes.
LTO-10 Press Release:
Spectra Logic Advances Perpetual Archive Strategy with Enterprise-Wide LTO-10 Support
All-new LTO-10 tape technology platform delivers a strategic leap in density, resilience, and sustainability—positioning tape as essential infrastructure for AI-driven data growth and long-term retention
BOULDER, Colo., May 28, 2025 – Spectra Logic®, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced enterprise-wide support for LTO-10 tape technology across its full portfolio of tape libraries*, including the Spectra® TFinity®, Spectra T950, Spectra Cube™, and Spectra Stack models. LTO-10 introduces a new architectural foundation for tape, delivering 30 terabytes (TB) of native capacity and 400 MB/s transfer speed per cartridge—advancing the Spectra strategic vision to deliver scalable, sustainable, and cyber-resilient perpetual archival infrastructure for long-term data preservation…read more
LTO-10 Webinar
Media Lifecycle Management
Certified Media combined with Media Lifecycle Management (MLM) reduces the most common media-related failures and can only be found with Spectra tape libraries.
Benefits
CarbideClean: Media debris elimination
Spectra Logic proprietary CarbideClean technology ensures media is debris-free. This helps extend the life of your tape drives and maximizes the performance and capacity of your tapes.
Media Lifecycle Management: Continuous proactive tape management
Spectra Logic’s Media Lifecycle Management (MLM) proactively tracks, manages, and provides reports on all aspects of tape usage and health status, reducing tape-related errors. MLM helps you manage your tapes efficiently from start to end with continuous assessments on more than 40 different metrics throughout the life of each tape.
Data Integrity Verification: Validates your data was successfully written to tape
Spectra’s Data Integrity Verifications (DIV) tools provide features that check the tape before use and checks to ensure that data was properly written to the tape. The DIV tools are designed to ensure your data is safe and secure.
Bar Code Tagging: Ease your tracking
Media arrives with pre-applied custom or standard barcodes, making continuous tracking very efficient.
TeraPacks: Ease your bulk-loading & offsite storage
Customers can conveniently order pre-packaged media with TeraPacks for easy loading into the Spectra tape library. The TeraPacks are removable from the library and are available with optional dust covers for added protection during offsite storage.
LTO-9 Pre-calibration: Pre-optimized for immediately availability
LTO-9 media must be initialized before use, which can take up to 30 minutes per cartridge. Spectra offers pre-initialized media which optimizes data placement and is immediately ready for use.
Tape media
LTO-10 tape drive technology is the latest and greatest in tape storage, offering unparalleled capacity, performance, and reliability for your business-critical data. With up to 30TB of native capacity per cartridge, LTO-10 can store more data than ever, making it an ideal solution for archiving and disaster recovery
Spectra libraries support LTO-9 Tape (linear tape open) technology, the ninth generation of tape technology that delivers on the LTO Consortium’s promise to develop LTO tape technology through at least 14 generations. With higher LTO-9 capacity, the entire line of Spectra tape libraries allows customers to store more data and better utilize their existing tape library footprint.
The TS1170 tape drive is a leading-edge storage solution that delivers unmatched capacity, performance, and reliability for your data protection and archiving needs. With its ultra-high capacity of up to 50TB per cartridge (150TB compressed), the TS1170 can store massive amounts of data in a compact and cost-effective form factor. Plus, its advanced technology provides data transfer rates of up to 400MB/s (900 MB/s compressed), making it one of the fastest tape drives on the market.
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