costing around $27 per month for each 18-terabyte LTO-9 tape cartridge used, or approximately $1.50/TB. That’s significantly cheaper than the likes of Backblaze ($6/TB a month) and Wasabi ($6.99 ...

A single 18TB LTO-9 cartridge, retailing for $88 ... venerable but still very much alive tape, more specifically LTO (Linear Tape Open). Yes, that very technology that optical drives were supposed ...

Part of the LTO-5 tape format, LTFS partitions the tape, with one containing indexing information for all the data on the cartridge and the other contains the actual data. Marry this capability to ...

See binary and bit. Tapes were originally open reels but were superseded by a variety of cartridges and cassettes. Today, LTO is the only thriving tape technology with future plans for increased ...