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  • LTO-10 Media Now Shipping From Fujifilm and Sony in Two Capacities

    MagStor Take LTO-10 media hitting the market in two distinct cartridge grades is not a footnote — it is a procurement decision. The 30 TB standard...
    by MagStor
    07/24/2026
  • LTO Tape Hits Record 152.9 EB Shipped as Data Growth Accelerates

    MagStor Take A record 152.9 exabytes in a single year is the market casting a very clear vote — not on speculation, but on deployed infrastructure...
    by MagStor
    07/23/2026
  • WEKA's WEKApod 3 claims a single-rack exabyte as NeuralMesh 6 adds multi-tenancy

    MagStor Take When a flash vendor needs a headline number, it reaches for "exabyte" — but exabytes on NVMe come with a power bill and a capital cos...
    by MagStor
    07/22/2026
  • LTO tape shipments hit a record 152.9 exabytes in 2023

    MagStor Take Record shipment numbers settle the debate: tape is not winding down, it is scaling up. The LTO Program's 2023 full-year figures — rep...
    by MagStor
    07/20/2026
  • AMD and IBM deepen their hybrid quantum-classical computing push

    MagStor Take Hyperscaler-grade AI compute partnerships are a useful reminder that the training-data storage problem is structural — not a temporar...
    by MagStor
    07/13/2026
  • Cloud failures erased ~50 million songs — the archival case for tape

    MagStor Take When three separate cloud platforms shut down and took irreplaceable media assets with them, the expert preservation community stoppe...
    by MagStor
    07/10/2026
  • AI-driven data growth is putting tape back on enterprise roadmaps

    MagStor Take The archival community's return to physical tape is not nostalgia — it's a rational response to a structural problem with cloud stora...
    by MagStor
    07/01/2026
  • LTO-10 has been shipping since January — what 40TB is delivering now

    MagStor Take LTO-10's 40 TB native figure is the one that matters for M&E archives — and it only hits that number with the aramid substrate va...
    by MagStor
    06/22/2026