LTO Roadmap extended to Ultrium 10

Posted on September 15th, 2014

Apple isn’t the only one with big announcements. HP, IBM and Quantum have announced details of Generation 9 and 10 LTO Ultrium tape technology.

This is an enormously significant development. Far from tape being in decline, its leaders are confident enough to publicly commit R&D investment into new tape technologies to meet the archival storage demands of our expanding digital universe.

This is great news for customers because it protects their investment in today’s tape technologies. Users can now be confident that there is a roadmap for compatible products that will continue beyond the end of this decade and probably well into the 2020’s.

The headline details of the new technologies announced are:

  • Updated roadmap increases capacity expectations to 120 TB per cartridge (assuming 2.5:1 compression)
  • The new generation guidelines call for compressed capacities of 62.5 TB for generation 9 and 120 TB for generation 10*. 
  • Throughput rates expected to increase more than 600 percent. 
  • Plans include compressed transfer rates of up to 1,770 MB/second for generation 9 and a blazing 2,750 MB/second for generation 10*

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