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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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LTO-10 bumped to 40 TB as future tape capacities get cut (blocksandfiles.com)

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The Linear Tape Open (LTO) consortium has reacted to higher capacity disk drives and SSDs with a 33 percent LTO-10 raw capacity upgrade to 40 TB and a target downgrade for the LTO-14 generation of 365 TB from the prior 576 TB.

LTO tape is used for archiving and the consortium of HPE, IBM, and Quantum is responsible for the LTO generational roadmap. The current generation is LTO-10 and it was originally specified to have a 36 TB raw capacity. In the event, sole LTO tape drive supplier IBM and tape-ribbon manufacturers Fujifilm and Sony were only able to achieve 30 TB. As disk drive capacity has passed 32 TB and SSD capacity is now at the 120 TB-plus level, tape cartridge capacity has been lagging behind.

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