IBM LTO Ultrium Data Cartridge LTO9

LTO-9 capacity, density, and performance continue to build on the value of the LTO standard and lead the market in preserving and protecting data to address massive growth in unstructured data. LTO continues to be the ideal storage medium for archiving and ransomware protection and recovery.

Quantum’s LTO media delivers reliability, cost, and security. To meet compliance for long-term data retention, LTO tape effectively meets your archive needs so that your data is not only secured from internal or external threats, but readily available and easily recoverable when needed. You can rely on LTO media to provide the lowest TCO to help your financial business objectives, capacity demands, and security requirements.

Increased Performance
With 18 TB of raw and up to 45 TB* of compressed capacity, and a full-height drive performance of up to 1,000 MB/sec (3.6 TB/Hr.) compressed transfer rate (400 MB/sec. native), LTO-9 dramatically reduces the floor space required to store long-term data and meet the demands of your business.

Mitigate Ransomware, Data Loss and Corruption
LTO provides the most efficient long-term archive, for offline and “air-gapped” data storage for the ultimate tier of data protection.

Lowest-Cost Storage
TCO Comparison against other long-term storage media shows LTO remains the low-cost leader that enables flexible scalability to match your data growth projections.

Flexibility
LTO continues to provide an open tape storage format that offers the security and flexibility needed in today’s cyber climate. LTO-9 can format new and unused LTO-8 tapes (R/W) and will be compatible with LTO-10 drives.