The Ultrium 3280 represents HP's fifth-generation of LTO tape drive technology while providing enterprise tape drive monitoring and management capabilities with HP TapeAssure, ease of use with support for LTFS and AES 256-bit hardware data encryption, easy-to-enable security to protect the most sensitive data and 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 and increase the reliability of the drive and media. The Ultrium 3280 provides investment protection with full read and write backward support with LTO-4 media, and 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 and increasing their ROI.