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Wayne Williams

Tape storage is not dead yet - but $300 LTO-10 cartridges and inflated exabyte numbers won't help its cause

Tape.
  • LTO tape sets new capacity record with 176.5 exabytes shipped
  • Compression inflates numbers masking real 70.6EB uncompressed data capacity
  • LTO-10 costs rise threatening tape’s long-standing affordability advantage

The LTO Program, backed by HPE, IBM, and Quantum, has reported a new high in tape capacity shipments, with 176.5 Exabytes of LTO media shipped in 2024.

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