FUJIFILM is preparing to manufacture a 5TB data cartridge for Oracle’s newest enterprise tape drive, StorageTek T10000C.

The StorageTek T10000C data cartridge is manufactured using Fujifilm’s Barium-Ferrite (BaFe) particle and has a native storage capacity of 5TB with a native transfer speed of 240MB per second. This is a capacity increase of five times the current 1.0TB StorageTek T10000B drive.

“Changes in regulatory compliance and expansion in storage technology such as cloud computing has prompted the amount of data for back-up and archive to consistently increase,” said Peter Faulhaber, senior vice president of sales and marketing, FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A., Inc. “Fujifilm’s Barium-Ferrite particle will meet these demands and we are pleased to provide this technology for the manufacture of Oracle’s StorageTek T10000C data cartridges.”

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

“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.