August 21, 2008: FujiFilm Recording Media USA announced that media manufactured by Fujifilm for the new Sun StorageTek T10000B Tape Drive is capable of storing up to three terabytes (TB) of data. The media is manufactured using FujiFilm’s Nanocubic technology, which combines nano-scale particles, a dual-coating process, and advanced dispersion techniques to achieve an ultra-thin magnetic layer that produces higher resolution for recording digital data, ultra-low noise and high signal-to-noise ratios that are ideal for magneto-resistive (MR) and giant magneto-resistive (GMR) heads.
The media for the new Sun StorageTek T10000B provides superior levels of enterprise tape storage performance with 120 MB/sec native transfer rate.
“Being able to bring advances to our high capacity, enterprise-class storage solutions is critically important to our customers who are managing exploding volumes of increasingly valuable data,” said Jon Benson, SVP of storage at Sun Microsystems. “By working closely with other technology providers, such as the tape engineers at Fujifilm, our new one terabyte drive is bringing the next generation to market today.”
Fujifilm is the only company to deliver Nanocubic-based storage media for data centers seeking solutions for increasing storage capacities. Three terabytes of storage is considered enough to hold the digitized content from a single academic research library.
“With the volume of digitized data accelerating over the next decade and the increased need for secure, encrypted storage for healthcare and financial compliance regulations, the industry must continue to develop solutions for the storage, management, transport and recovery of highly valuable data,” noted Peter Faulhaber, SVP, sales and marketing, Fujifilm Recording Media.