High-capacity tape designed for high reliability and long lifespan! The key features of the IBM LTO-6 tape drive are designed to improve performance and capabilities compared to IBM LTO-5, IBM LTO-4, and other tape drives. Some of the improvements include:

• Inherent data rate of up to 160 MB/s
• Physical capacity of 2500 GB
• Enhancements to the data compression engine - data compressed with LTO-5 drives at 2:1 should now be compressed at 2.5:1
• Faster tape drive mechanism (9 m/s for half-height) resulting in faster seek and rewind times
• Support for 8Gb FC and 6Gb SAS connectivity
• SkipSync feature for small file offload without backhitchless
• Buffer memory: 1024 MB (full-height models) and 512 MB (half-height models)