IBM Readies LTO-10 Tape Drives And Libraries

June 9, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

As the capacities on flash and disk arrays continue to embiggen and the desire to keep data around is at a fever pitch as everyone is trying to figure out how to train generative AI models using all of their data, the need for tape backup for transactional and operational data has never been higher.

Which is why it is good timing for IBM to be rolling out its tape drives based on LTO-10 cartridges.

The IBM 3589 Ultrium LTO-10 cartridges, which are known as Models 554 and 654, have a native capacity of 30 TB, and with 2.5X data …