5TB Tape Cartridges for Oracle Storage Systems to be Manufactured by Fujifilm

Although mainstream consumers (and even a lot of enterprise) don't rely anymore on tape-based storage systems for backup, this technology is still very much alive, Fujifilm recently revealing the fact that it will manufacture 5TB data cartridges for Oracle’s newest enterprise tape drive, StorageTek T10000C.

The new cartridges uses Fujifilm's Barium-Ferrite (BaFe) particle and has a native storage capacity of 5.0TB and supports a native transfer speed of 240MB per second.

Moreover, it sports several other advanced technologies, including here NANOCUBIC technologies, “NANO particle”, “NANO coating” and “NANO dispersion”, whose purpose is to enable an ultra-smooth thin magnetic layer by coating micrified BaFe particles uniformly, which rapidly increased the storage areal density.

The StorageTek T10000C drive combined with Oracle’s StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System is the first storage solution to scale to an exabyte (using 2:1 compression).

“Fujifilm is pleased to have worked with Oracle to bring to market the highest capacity tape drive in the industry,” said Norio Shibata, CEO and president, FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A., Inc, who also added that “Fujifilm is paving the way with Barium Ferrite technology, which enables higher recording density with the proven reliability and stability expected from long-term archive media. Oracle’s adoption of this advanced media shows their strong commitment to tape innovation.”

“This is a milestone in tape data storage and Oracle is excited to be the first to use Fujifilm’s Barium-Ferrite particle technology to create the fastest backup and archive solution on the market today,” said Jim Cates, vice president, Hardware Development, Oracle.

“We anticipate that Oracle’s StorageTek T10000C will change the role of tape in the storage industry with its unprecedented capacity and throughput made possible by the unique properties of Fujifilm’s Barium-Ferrite particle combined with Oracle’s enterprise drive technology,” Mr. Cates concluded.