HP Ultrium tape technology has been designed to deliver exceptional reliability and performance at the lowest cost per GB. The Ultrium format builds on the best of existing technologies; open standards increase innovation and widen customer choice in terms of performance, capacity, and form factor. The latest third Generation products minimize interruption to network and SAN backup by being capable of protecting 576GB GB/hour of data and storing up to 800GB on one piece of media (double the capacity of Ultrium 2 tapes).