LTO 8 Tapes

The label tells the LTO-8 tape drive to format the LTO-7 tape as a Type M cartridge. This upgrades the LTO7 tape capacity from 6 TB native to 9 TB native and can be used in a LTO8 Drive. LTO-8 doubles the capacity of LTO-7 and provides a 20 percent increase in performance. The extra performance translates into fewer tape drives to do the same amount of work, while the additional capacity equates to fewer tape cartridges used to store the same amount of data.

LTO-8 offers a compressed storage capacity of 30TB (12TB native) using a 2.5:1 ratio, and a compressed transfer rate of 750 MB/sec. (360MB/sec. native). In addition, the new LTO-8 drives are backward compatible with LTO-7 tape media, allowing users to read/write any LTO-7 media. LTO-8 tape, like LTO-7, supports LTFS, WORM (Write Once Read Many) and AES 256-bit hardware encryption.