ATTO Announces Support of LTO-9 Tape Technology

We’re pleased to officially announce our support for LTO-9 tape technology across our product lines.

Linear Tape-Open generation nine (LTO-9) technology improves upon the prior generation with more storage capacity and transfer speed. LTO-9 Ultrium tape stores up to 18TB uncompressed and 45TB compressed which is 50% greater capacity than LTO-8. Uncompressed transfer speeds reach up to 400MB/s in full-height LTO-9 drives which is nearly two times faster than LTO-8. LTO-9 drives are backward compatible with LTO-8 media.

ATTO supports backup and archive processes end-to-end with a full range of connectivity solutions for every environment. Industry-exclusive ATTO features and technologies allow for quicker and safer backups plus provide design flexibility otherwise unavailable to system designers.

ATTO Advanced Data Streaming™, built into all ATTO HBAs, bridges and Thunderbolt™ devices, manages latency to provide controlled acceleration for smooth data streaming to maintain the highest consistent performance.

When backing up data, write speed is the most important metric. ATTO SpeedWrite™ keeps paths between a host and ATTO XstreamCORE® intelligent Bridge filled with data to boost write performance by up to 25% over a direct connect SAS HBA connection to tape drives.

ATTO ThunderLink® Thunderbolt adapters and ATTO ExpressSAS® GT SAS HBAs deliver the fastest available connection to LTO-9 SAS tape drives. Featuring a full range of port configurations and driver support, easy-to-use features, extensive industry qualifications and integrates with up to 16 tape drives per bridge.

ATTO XstreamCORE intelligent Bridges enable the addition of direct-attached SAS tape to shared Ethernet networks, providing a flexible and easy way to scale and remotely share LTO-9 tape devices.

Visit the Tape Library Storage Connectivity Solutions page on our website to read detailed descriptions of how ATTO solutions add performance, flexibility and value to LTO tape backup and archive environments.