The Maxell Corporation of America is a leading manufacturer of consumer and professional media products including audiotape and accessories videocassettes and accessories computer data storage media batteries diskettes optical products and professional audiotape and videotape. Maxell DLT media are rated at 500 000 tape passes even under the worst-case temperature and humidity conditions thanks to Maxell's patented ceramic-coated metal particles. A minimum head life expectancy of 15 000 hours can be expected with Maxell's ultra-smooth coating process. With sophisticated error detection and correction absolute data integrity is achieved using Maxell media. Maxell DLT media are perfect for Hierarchical Storage Management applications backing up LAN servers workstations and midrange systems. Ideal for DVD mastering too! This is a DLT IV unformatted cartridge: 20GB native/40GB compressed capacity.