If you're old enough, tape backup has been around for decades and was slowly fading out of the market as a digital storage medium. Zip drives were disappearing, and external HDDs were meant to replace ...

OWC is now bundling its Mercury Pro LTO tape storage and archiving device with ArGest Backup software, which provides bulk transfer, archive, and storage solutions across Mac, PC, and Linux. The ...

The LTO-9 open standard boosts the transfer speed of magnetic tape, which seems like an improvement, but that might not make tape a more attractive option for backup. Magnetic storage tape has’t been ...

The Mercury Pro LTO is a Thunderbolt 3 integrated tape backup and archiving solution that offers 12TB of uncompressed storage per LTO-8 tape for up to 30-year archival storage. The Mercury Pro LTO ...

A recently released standard for linear tape-open—LTO-9—sets the scene for faster drives with more capacity, but are they a must-have? With the recent release of the linear tape–open 9 (LTO-9) ...

There were long faces at the introduction of the tenth LTO generation; capacity increase compared to predecessor was small. Now the consortium is following up. HPE, IBM, and Quantum, the three members ...

It’s no secret: IT pros absolutely love to hate tape. I’ve remarked on that fact in this column several times over the past few years, and it’s no less true now than it was any of the other times I’ve ...