Shiny discs were supposed to kill boring magnetic tape once and for all Tape remains the only true viable long-term solution but drives are far too expensive It's 2025 and after almost 20 years, Sony ...

Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and storage solutions, is unveiling the Spectra OSW-2400 Optical SAS Switch, a groundbreaking innovation in data center tape storage connectivity.

QStar Technologies is named a Coldago Research 2025 Gem for vision and execution of Global ArchiveSpace file/cloud gateway to ...

Based on the Serial-Attached SCSI 4.0 (SAS-4) standard, the OSW-2400 switch provides up to 48 24G lanes operating at 22.5 Gb/s, delivering 1.08 Tb/s of bandwidth, or an aggregate data transfer rate of ...

The OSW-2400 switch supports current-generation SAS-3 tape drives including LTO-9 and IBM TS1170 Enterprise Tape Drives and provides backward compatibility with SAS-2 devices. In addition, Spectra ...

the price of LTO-9 tape has reached parity - on a per TB basis - with LTO-8 tape. That said, LTO-9 drives still carry a significant premium and therefore, I would still choose the previous ...