Gain up to 100 TB of compressed data per cartridge with next-generation LTO Ultrium 10 technology
Affordable, scalable storage for modern workloads
IBM® LTO-10 Tape Drive incorporates the latest generation of Linear Tape-Open (LTO) technology, delivering even higher capacity than the previous generation.
In addition to backup, LTO Tape Drive is designed to help your business handle the growing data demands of modern tape use cases like cloud computing, media and entertainment, digital video surveillance, active file archiving and, of course, for backup archive.
By providing a physical storage capacity of up to 100 TB per cartridge (with 2.5:1 compression), LTO-10 Tape Drive is an excellent tape storage solution for medium-sized and enterprise businesses requiring backup and low-cost, archival storage of data
Gain 122% more storage capacity in the same footprint vs LTO9. Store up to 100 TB (compressed) per cartridge — better capacity than previous-generation LTO cartridges.
Make tape-based data easy to access. IBM Storage Archive™ supports the tape-oriented IBM Linear Tape File System™ (IBM LTFS).
LTO tape drives are available in Full Height and Half Height form factors, providing flexibility for addressing a variety of needs from small to enterprise business.
IBM Tape drives offer AES-256 bit data encryption at-rest and Post-Quantum Cryptography certificates for Private Key Infrastructure (PKI) protecting data privacy and securing data from cyber-attacks or accidental exfiltration.
Features
LTO-10 tape drive delivers an uncompressed data transfer rate of up to 400 MBps, and up to 1000 MBps with 2.5:1 compression. Performance varies by host usage and interface, supporting 32 Gbps FC and 12 Gbps SAS for full-height drives.
With two FC ports and one Ethernet port, the LTO-10 drive integrates easily into modern SAN infrastructures. It supports 32Gb and 64Gb networks without special connectivity requirements, reducing SAN costs. SAS models offer two SAS ports and one Ethernet port for added flexibility.
IBM Storage Archive creates an efficient “data footprint” that dynamically stores every bit of data at the optimal cost, helping maximize performance and ensuring security. It enables storage of digital assets for the long term, so assets can be referenced and monetized for years to come.
LTO Ultrium 10 provides partitioning support, which, in conjunction with IBM Storage Archive, provides users with file-level access to tape data. This support helps users quickly locate and update information.
The LTFS format ensures compatibility across LTO drives and operating systems, simplifying file access and archiving. Administrators can quickly access, store or archive files on Ultrium 10 tape cartridges and transport files to another LTO-10 Tape Drive.
The LTO Ultrium 10 technology is also designed to natively support data encryption, with core hardware encryption and decryption capabilities resident in the LTO Ultrium 10 tape drive itself. It also includes Post-Quantum Cryptography certificates for advanced security key exchange.
LTO-10 Tape Drive supports the LTO Consortium compression specification for LTO Ultrium 10, offering up to 100 TB of data storage per cartridge (40 TB native).
Recommended Access Order (RAO), available on LTO-10, enables tape control applications to accelerate the retrieval of a certain number of user data segments (UDSs) – files or blocks of data from a single tape cartridge, thereby reducing the seek time between them. RAO improves random access time to data segments on tape by as much as 86%, when compared with retrievals of the same data segments linearly.
Generations
LTO tape Drives - Industry Interoperable Tape Format
- LTO-10
- 30/40 TB
- Up to 400 MBpS
- 12Gb SAS Host Interface
- 32Gb FC Host Interface
- No Downward compatibility
- WORM and Encryption
- LTFS
- 18 TB
- Up to 400 MBpS
- 12Gb SAS Host Interface
- 8Gb FC Host Interface
- Downward R1x / W1x
- WORM and Encryption
- LTFS
- 12 TB
- Up to 360 MBpS
- 12Gb SAS Host Interface
- 8Gb FC Host Interface
- Downward R1x / W1x
- WORM and Encryption
- LTFS