Tech Brief5 min read
Why LTO-9 Tape Still Matters in the Age of Ransomware
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Michael O'Connor
Logistics Director
Disk is fast, but disk is online. If a hacker gains admin access, they can wipe your disk backups. They cannot wipe a tape cartridge sitting on a shelf.
LTO-9 Capacities
LTO-9 offers 18TB native capacity (up to 45TB compressed) per cartridge. With transfer speeds of 400MB/s, it rivals SATA SSDs for large sequential writes.
The Economics of Cold Storage
For long-term retention (7+ years for compliance), tape is vastly cheaper than spinning disk or cloud archive tiers (Glacier Deep Archive), with zero retrieval fees.