HP has announced the expansion of its Linear Tape Open (LTO) technology portfolio with upgraded HP StorageWorks LTO-5 Ultrium tape drives, delivering improved data transfer speeds and management capabilities.

Available with the HP StorageWorks MSL tape libraries, these new archive solutions enable businesses to better manage information through enhanced data protection, disaster recovery as well as long-term data retention operations.

HP StorageWorks LTO-5 tape solutions improve backup performance and reduce data loss with built-in encryption. This prevents unlawful access in the event of theft or malicious use by encoding data to ensure it is unreadable to unauthorised users.

With nearly double the capacity of LTO-4 tape drives and encryption support, HP LTO-5 drives can store more data at a lower cost while meeting data security requirements.

The HP StorageWorks LTO-5 internal drives (SAS) start from $A4,725 (inc. GST) and the external LTO-5 drives (SAS) start from $A4,991.