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 ...

LTO-10, the newest generation of the LTO Ultrium tape format, was announced today. Full-height drives and media are available for immediate ordering from vendors like Symply and Spectra Logic.

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 ...

SILICON VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs), Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, International Business Machines Corporation, and Quantum Corporation, ...

LTO-9 is now available, but the roadmap to its release was changed and it doesn’t have the amount of storage it was originally meant to have. Has tape still got a future? You may have missed the ...

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 ...

SILICON VALLEY, Calif., August 13, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs), Hewlett Packard Enterprise, International Business Machines Corporation and Quantum ...

Tape media and drive companies have begun shipping the sixth generation of linear-tape open (LTO) technology, which like previous generation upgrades, significantly increases the capacity and data ...

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/ -- ...

Tandberg Data, Imation and Fujifilm have announced separately that they are shipping the new LTO-6 tape drive technology offering up to 1.4TB per hour throughput. Tape media and drive companies have ...

LTO (linear tape open)-based drives are invigorating the tape storage market. New third-generation LTO drives from Certance and IBM are powering the trend. IBM TotalStorage 3580 Tape Drive Generation ...

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 ...