Last Adic Scalar i500 I used had 6x LTO4 drives, about once every month or 2 it would ask for a cleaning tape for a single drive. So not very frequently at all. We also took really good care of our ...

So, my trusty Dell TL2000 LTO4 SAS tape library in the server rack at home has given up the ghost after 10+ years of daily backups - the picker isn't aligning correctly. I'm a little nervous about all ...

Tape libraries recently experienced a dramatic evolution, changing from monolithic brontosaurs that you had to carefully size according to present and future demands into more congenial devices, ...

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spectra Logic, a leader in data storage and data management solutions, again has advanced the boundaries of tape technology with today’s news that the Spectra TFinity ...

If you want really vast storage, and we really do mean vast, the Spectra TFinity ExaScale could be just the ticket. You'll need an equally big room to fit it in though! The word “exascale” is one of ...

The new LTO generation 9 delivers 18 TB of native capacity per cartridge (up to 45TB with a typical compression of 2.5:1), extending tape’s value for low-cost, highly efficient storage. The ...

Quantum has announced a new generation of its tape library offering. The storage provider this week announced its new Scalar i7 Raptor tape library, designed to handle advanced AI workloads for ...

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LTO is the largest volume magnetic tape. Magnetic tape is mostly used in cold storage archive and backup applications because of the latency in bringing tapes to tape drives in order to read them.

A recently released standard for linear tape-open—LTO-9—sets the scene for faster drives with more capacity, but are they a must-have? With the recent release of the linear tape–open 9 (LTO-9) ...

If you have more than one state-of-the-art tape drive behind your LAN-based backup server, chances are you have too many. That’s right. If you’ve got a LAN-based backup server, and behind it is more ...