Meet your storage needs with LTO technology productivity

LTO technology is currently in its ninth generation and has a twenty-year history of providing secure and reliable storage for businesses and organizations around the world. With current LTO-9 tape systems, more than 25 petabytes of data can be securely stored in a single data center rack, at a fraction of the cost and power of disk-based (HDD) storage.

The LTO-9 specification supports compact tape cartridge storage capacities of up to 45TB and tape drive data transfer rates of up to 1,000MB/s for 3.6TB of storage performance per hour per drive.

New generations with higher capacity and transfer rates are regularly introduced along with new features for greater data and content protection. The LTO specification for backward compatibility up to the seventh generation of technology is one generation write and two generation read. The newer generations of LTO Ultrium tape drives, 8th and 9th, can write back and read for one generation. Tape technology has more room to grow in areal density and thus capacity, and has a well-defined roadmap of up to 14 generations and 1440 TB (compressed) per cartridge.

According to Solutions North analysts, LTO-9 tape has a measurable ROI of 1,950% compared to cloud storage and 601% compared to hard disk. Additionally, since power constraints will continue to be part of the daily challenges of data centers, reducing the power of stored data with LTO-9 provides larger data centers with greater measurable benefits. The same research estimates that an LTO tape consumes 96% less power than a hard drive when used for data files.

Data on the LTO tape can be stored behind a physical air gap. A physical air gap provides maximum protection against ransomware threats, because it is offline and completely isolated from threats that attack across the network. This is important because, according to research by Enterprise Strategy Group, only one in seven companies that pay ransoms get all of their data back. Meanwhile, the cost of a new mid-range tape library, containing one petabyte of LTO-9 tape storage, is likely to be much less than the average ransom demand.

Many organizations are already aware of cost and cybersecurity when it comes to data storage, but are now also adding sustainability goals to the equation. LTO tape technology is a secure, long-lasting, low-cost data storage technology that can help you maintain your data center.

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