If you’ve got a mountain of digital data to store but don’t necessarily need to access it every day, tape cartridges are the way to go. Twelve terabytes of storage will set you back about $100 these ...

IBM announced its TS1170 magnetic tape drive, supporting storage capacities up to 50TB native and higher capacities with compression. The product has a native data rate of 400 MB/s and has a 12Gb SAS ...

Before cloud storage, we risked everything to back up our files ...

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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) ...

Going on adding a lot of new data to backups very soon. Going from about 15tb fulls to 55tb fulls. All new hardware is in the works. That is where I need some guidance. I have had a lot of experience ...

Back in the day: Consumers stopped using magnetic tape storage so long ago that many reading this are likely too young to know what it is. However, its ability to store massive amounts of data on ...

IBM announced the general availability of the industry’s first magnetic tapes and drives based on the LTO-9 Ultrium specification for massive data capacity and resilience. The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) 9 ...

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 ...

The computer's storage media prior to solid state drives (SSDs). Magnetic tape and disks were developed in the 1950s and commonly used together in companies for decades. Tape was the primary medium ...

Portable TapeStor Travan USB 2.0 bundled solutions are available with a 20 GB or 40 GB tape drive from Seagate Removable Storage Solutions, a manufacturer of computer tape drive and tape head products ...