Tape Storage

In March, IBM made an important announcement regarding the discontinuation of the manufacturing of 3592 Gen 1 and Gen 2 Media. As a result, several tape cartridges have been discontinued as follows IBM 18P7534 - 3592 JA 300GB IBM 18P7538 - 3592 JW 300GB WORM IBM 24R0316 - 359...

LTO-9 media needs calibration on the first use which can be anywhere between 15 minutes to 2 hours, and this presents an opportunity to sell Pre-calibrated media.

LTO-9 with 18TB Native capacity will put the tape on the same league as Hard drives in terms of capacity, and it looks like it may hit the market next month.

An onsite safe offers many benefits and it may be worth considering instead of opting for an offsite media rotation plan.

Quantum's LTO-9 Pre Purchase program offers you LTO-9 drives exchanged for your LTO-8 drives at a nominal uplift fee.

We look at various packings available in LTO Ultrium tape media and how each one is different from the other

This article covers the Expiry dates , and the limited lifetime warranty of the LTO ultrium tapes. Since there are no expiry dates mentioned on the carton, this always causes confusion on why there is no expiry , and is there actually a date before which the tapes are good to ...

When you see the capacities of LTO ultrium tapes, there is always a pair of Native/Compressed capacity. We see how they are related, what is compression and why you should only consider Native capacity.

When you are backing up your data to the tape media, you are going to rely on it in case of a catastrophe. Its a no brainer that this media itself though rugged needs to be protected when it is in transit and where it is permanently stored.

Data Sanitization has gained more importance in the recent years due to the increasing cases of data thefts and the financial and operation impact it may have on an organization that's impacted.  We look at what it is, why its important and ways to do it.

LTO-8 media soon after its launch was in shortage, due to a patent legal dispute between FujiFilm and Sony the 2 largest manufacturers of LTO media. LTO-8 tape drives were shipped but the media itself wasn't available. The customer could use LTO-7 media in their LTO-8 drive, b...

Its 2020 and tapes are still selling like they were in 2003 when we first started our company. The only thing that has actually changed is that we are not selling so many formats. From selling more than 10 formats( DDS, DLT/SDLT, SLR,QIC,8mm, AIT to name a few) everything has ...

As in February, the LTO-8 media still continues to be in shortage.  So what do you do, you have invested in LTO-8 tape drive already, hoping to make use of the high-density 12TB Native LTO-8 media ( o

Despite what many say, tapes are far from dead. In fact past few years we have seen the tapes converge to 2 Major Formats -  LTO and 3592 media.  Vendors ( LTO consortium for LTO and IBM/Fuji for 3592

Improved Capacity and Transfer rate Capacity of course doubles with every new release of LTO .  LTO-8's  12TB native is double the 6TB native of LTO-7 Media. Apart from capacity the performance has to

We have the LTO-8 type M labels available now from Tri-optics.  LTO-8 Type M is the previously unusued LTO-7 Media that can be reformatted for use in LTO-8 drive. For the drivie automation to recgnize

LTO-8 Drives will start shipping in Q12018. As usual there is a capacity increase in LTO-8 drives ( 12TB Native, double that of LTO-7), but this is not the only differentiating factor for this new dri

HP has officially stopped taking orders on DDS tapes, and some of the DDS market is being captured by RDX due to simplicity and ease of use. Latest RDX tape boasts a capacity of 4Tb on a single tape. 

Quantum has announced the availability of LTO-7 drives. The external Quantum  TC-L72BN-EZ - Half height tablet top SAS drive offers a migration from LTO-6 drives. The LTO-7 drive is read and write com

When you are  Disposing your old Hard drives, merely deleting or reformatting is not enough to sanitize  the hard drive. Even after formatting, the Confidential information stays on your hard drives/