LTO-9, the latest LTO magnetic tape standard was announced in the Fall of 2020. In the last few weeks the first LTO-9 products became available. LTO 9 tape has a raw capacity of 18TB and compressed ...

The LTO Program (HPE, IBM and Quantum Corporations) released an updated report on LTO magnetic tape shipments out to 2022. LTO tape is an open tape format developed and enhanced by HPE, IBM and ...

Our automatic lto tape system just took a dump at work. Our outside IT consultant told us that LTO tapes are on their way out and can't support the format that our ...

LTO is suffering from shortages right now, and it's all to do with patent law suits. This is not good news if you value your data right now. Film and TV production is one of the last, best outposts of ...

The search for a future-proof archive media takes in everything from SSDs to nano-sized quartz, but a breakthrough is happening in the world of tape. Fujifilm is currently working on stuffing 400TB ...

Combination of LTO-9 in Scalar tape libraries extends leadership in offline storage efficiency, meets customer's data security and capacity demands SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

Just wondering what everyone does in regards to retiring old(er) LTO tape media? Do you junk it after X amount of time being read/written? After X amount of time in general (3 years from purchase date ...

The imminent arrival of the new LTO-7 tape format, details of which were released in September, is proof that tape has yet to breathe its last, despite multiple reports to the contrary. The LTO-7 ...