The LTO consortium, which includes such IT giants as HPE, IBM and Quantum, has released a so-called roadmap - a plan for the further development of the LTO Ultrium tape drive standard. According to it, the technology will develop at least five generations to the LTO-14 standard. The first generation standard released under the LTO Program was introduced 22 years ago (in 2000). According to its specification, it was planned to store data on one tape cartridge up to 200 GB of information in compressed form. The current ninth-generation standard (LTO-9) has a net capacity of 18 TB, and it can store up to 45 TB of data in compressed form, the data transfer rate is 1000 MB / s (including compression), the cost of storage is less than $0 .01/GB, according to the consortium.

The new roadmap says that each next generation of LTO Ultrium will provide a doubling of capacity. For example, in the LTO-10, the cartridge capacity will be 36 TB, and in compressed form, data can be stored up to 90 TB. The eleventh generation (LTO11) of cartridges will support 72 TB raw and 180 TB compressed, and so on up to LTO14.

In LTO-14, it is planned to increase the volume to 576 TB and 1.44 PB of compressed data storage. How this will be achieved and what technologies will form the basis of LTO-14, the consortium did not specify. However, competitors, for example, Fujitsu, last year already created an experimental drive with a capacity for "clean" information of 1 PB and 2.5 PB already with compression.

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