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For computer data backups and transfer, optical discs become obsolete as more compact and reliable devices become standard. As optical discs are gradually replaced, one might use a USB flash drive to transfer small chunks of media; larger segments may be transferred with magnetic tape. Traditionally, tape has been proprietary and not easily shared between […]

Developed by the LTO consortium, LTFS is a standard for formatting tape media that ensures readability by any system. This new technology has expanded opportunities for accessible deep level data storage at a low cost when compared to disk-based alternatives. The latest generation of LTO tapes, LTO5 can be formatted with LTFS to ensure a […]

For years, tape has been the dominant medium for data archival; however, tape archives do not give flexibility to end users for rapid access to data. While this has traditionally posed a challenge to IT professionals, a new product from Crossroads Systems, StrongBox, illuminates possibilities unlike preceding technology. StrongBox employs Linear Tape File System (LTFS) […]

For many organizations, magnetic tape media serves an important role in long-term data archival. The trouble with tape is that, traditionally, read and write standards are specific to vendors. That is, a tape written by one machine would likely be unreadable in another vendor’s machine. Or so was the case until the invention of Linear […]

Linear Tape File System or LTFS, as it is popularly known as, is referred to the format of data recorded on a magnetic tape media as well as implementing the specific software using this data format, proving a file system interface to the data that is stored on magnetic tape. This self-describing tape format called […]