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THE NEW LTO-9 TAPE
With storage capacity of 18/45 TB
With LTO-9, another stage in the LTO roadmap has been reached, the 9th of currently planned 12 generations. The capacity has been increased to 18 TB native (45 TB compressed). The data throughput is max. 400/1,000 MB/s (FH-Drive). LTO-9 drives are one generation downward compatible to LTO-8.
Special features of the LTO tape format include hardware-based encryption with AES 264, WORM compatibility and LTFS support.
18/45 TB
STORAGE CAPACITY
8.960
NUMBER OF DATA TRACKS
AES 264
ENCRYPTION
400 MB/s
TRANSFER RATE
LTO Ultrium Roadmap
LTO-9 offers a 50% increase in storage capacity compared to LTO-8.
Compared to the LTO-5 technology released 10 years ago, the capacity even increases by 1,400%.
UPDATE (06.09.2022): The roadmap has now been extended by the LTO Consortium to a total of 14 generations. The roadmap foresees that tape capacity will double with each new generation. After its introduction, LTO-14 will exceed the capacity of LTO-9 cartridges by 32 times.
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Keep your archive safe for the future with tapes
According to the INSIC Tape Technology Roadmap1 , tapes have a clear advantage over HDD technology in terms of storage capacity requirements over the next 10 years. Current LTO and enterprise tape drives operate at areal densities that are approximately two times less than the latest HDD. This, in turn, allows for a historic increase in tape storage capacity through 2030.
Here’s an example: current 18 TB HDDs use 1022 Gb/in1, whereas the new 18 TB LTO cartridge requires only 12 Gb/in. This means that LTO-9 tapes achieve the same capacity with just 1/85th of the area capacity that HDDs require for the same storage capacity.
Simply put, tape has significantly more recording area compared to HDD and will be able to improve even further in the coming years. The combination of tape area and the ability to increase areal density is the main reason that tape technology will continue to enjoy 40% per year growth in capacity.
1 INSIC, INSIC Tape Technology update and Linear Tape-Open (LTO) White paper, September 2019
