The Ultrium 1840 represents HP's fourth-generation of LTO tape drive technology capable of storing 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 Mbps, HP's exclusive data rate matching feature further optimizes performance by matching speed of host to keep drives streaming & increase to reliability of the drive & media. The Ultrium 1840 provides investment protection with full read & write support with LTO-3 media, & the ability to read LTO-2 cartridge.