Category Archives: LTO Tapes

Linear Tape-Open (LTO) is a widely adopted magnetic tape format used for data storage across various industries. Known for its impressive storage capacity, LTO has become the leading tape-based solution for large-scale data archiving. The latest version, LTO-9, can hold up to 18 terabytes of data on a single tape, making it one of the […]

Despite the rise of newer storage technologies, magnetic storage tapes, including LTO tapes, continue to be a widely used medium across various industries. Thanks to their low cost per terabyte, LTO tapes remain a cost-effective solution for long-term data archiving, even though they have slower, sequential read/write speeds compared to HDDs or SSDs. One of […]