HP LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 tape represents HPs fourth-generation of LTO tape drive technology capable of storing up to 1.6 TB per cartridge while providing hardware-based data encryption to enable greater levels of security & unprecedented performance. AES 256-bit hardware data encryption provides easy-to-enable security to protect the most sensitive data & prevent unauthorized access of tape cartridges. By using Ultrium 1840 hardware data encryption, not only is data fully capable of being compressed therefore maximizing capacity, encrypted backups are completed without a loss in performance. Capable of data transfer rates up to 240 MB/sec, HPs exclusive data rate matching feature further optimizes performance by matching speed of host to keep drives streaming & increase the reliability of the drive & media.