Brad Johns Consulting L.L.C.

The new LTO 10 tape drives and media have been added to the TCO tool. Since only the Full Height drive was announced, configurations for less than 20 PB will continue to use LTO 9. For the larger configurations, the ten-year TCO is based on LTO 10 and a future migration to LTO 12. For configurations less than 20 PB, the ten-year TCO is based on LTO 9 with a future migration to LTO 11 in year 6. Industry disk pricing and power costs have been updated to account for today’s hig

IBM announced the LTO Generation 10  30 TB tape cartridge and full-height tape drive earlier this week. The announcement brought back...

The recent Seagate " Decarbonizing Data " report highlights the growing data center sustainability and cost challenges driven by...