The HPE lto-7 Ultrium 15000 tape drive represents Hewlett Packard enterprise's seventh generation of LTO tape drive technology providing enterprise tape drive monitoring and management capabilities with HPE Tape Assure, ease of use with support for LTFS and AES 256-bit hardware data encryption easy-to-enable security to protect the extra sensitive data and prevent unauthorized access of tape cartridges. With speed matching feature further optimizes performance by matching speed of host to keep drives streaming and increase the reliability of the drive and media. Hope LTO Ultrium half-height drives are designed for server customers in direct attached storage (DAS) environments. For it organizations with stringent, long-term data retention requirements, the Ultrium 15000's worm (write-once, read-many) data protection feature offers a simple and secure method for archiving records as part of a compliance solution to meet Tough of industry regulations. The Ultrium 15000 tape drives provide investment protection with full read and write backward support with lto-6 media, and the ability to read lto-5 cartridges. By more than doubling the native capacity of previous generation Ultrium drives, Hewlett Packard enterprise customers require fewer data cartridges to meet their storage needs, significantly reducing their it costs and increasing their ROI.