The durable ceramic coating has increased the tape smoothness and useful life of this Maxell DDS-3 media cartridge. The reduced media deterioration will keep your DDS-3 tape drive in excellent condition and provide you the reliability and speed to enhance the staff productivity. Maxell has employed a new hub locking system in this DDS-3 backup cartridge for exceptional tape stability during write/read operations. Its useful life is 2000 head passes and stores up to 24GB information.