Fujifilm has confirmed that its new LTO Ultrium 10 data cartridges with 40TB native capacity will begin shipping in January 2026, turning the highest-capacity tier of the LTO-10 generation into a commercially available product. The cartridges offer up to 100TB of capacity with compression and are designed to operate in the same LTO-10 drives already deployed for earlier 30TB media.
The launch adds a second capacity point within the LTO-10 generation, something that is unusual for LTO, which historically advances capacity only when a new drive generation arrives. In this case, Fujifilm is launching the 40TB cartridge as an “advanced iteration” of the 30TB cartridge instead of a straight-up replacement for it, giving customers a choice between 30TB and 40TB based on cost and storage density factors.
