LTO 7 Tapes

LTO 7 tapes more than double the capacity of LTO 6 tape. Designed for an optimal blend of attributes, LTO-7 technology provides industry leading capacity, performance, compatibility, interchangeability. LTO 7 tapes have an uncompressed storage capacity of 6TB and a compressed capacity of up to 15TB. Additionally, LTO-7 tape drive technology increased the tape head channel count from 16 to 32. It's faster too, with up to 300 MB/sec native transfer rate, up to 750 MB/sec compressed. That's nearly 2.7TB of data transferred per drive per hour compressed. This increase will provide a higher data transfer rate, resulting in a reduction of approximately 50% of the time to read or write a full tape.