The Ultrium 3280 represents HP's fifth-generation of LTO tape drive technology while providing enterprise tape drive monitoring & management capabilities with HP Tape Assure, ease of use with support for LTFS & AES 256-bit hardware data encryption, easy-to-enable security to protect the most sensitive data & prevent unauthorized access of tape cartridges. HP's exclusive data rate matching feature further optimizes performance by matching speed of host to keep drives streaming & increase the reliability of the drive & media. The Ultrium 3280 provides investment protection with full read & write backward support with LTO-4 media, & the ability to read LTO-3 cartridge. By nearly doubling the capacity of previous generation Ultrium drives, HP customers now require fewer data cartridges to meet their storage needs, significantly reducing their IT costs & increasing their ROI.