- The high-capacity LTO-10 hard drive provides 30 TB of built-in storage for Apple Mac Mini installations.
- Self-contained tape storage improves security with air gaps and built-in encryption.
- The LTO-10 desktop unit provides SSD-like data transfer speeds for long-term archiving applications.
If you have serious storage needs, you'll be interested to know that you can connect a 30TB LTO-10 tape drive to Apple Mac Mini, which can be a useful, if rather expensive, solution for long-term backup.
The SymplyPRO XTF SAS LTO-10 desktop streamer supports data transfer speeds close to those of a standard SATA SSD.
LTO-10 cartridges have a native capacity of 30 TB and a stated read and write speed of 400 MB/s. This figure increases to 75 TB if you use compression (2.5:1) with potential transfer speeds ranging from 900 MB/s to 1000 MB/s, although this depends entirely on how easily the data is compressed.
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The full-size small chassis SymplyPRO XTF SAS LTO-10 can be purchased on the website B&H for $11,395.25. Connecting to a Mac Mini or any latest macOS system is possible via a compatible Thunderbolt-SAS setup.
The drive features two 12Gbps SFF8644 ports and comes with the cable required for this link. It also comes with a data cartridge, cleaning cartridge, worldwide power cords, and Symply LTFS software so customers can start recording to tape right away.
The device supports WORM cartridges and 256-bit encryption, which helps if the goal is secure long-term storage rather than short-term access.
Because LTO cartridges can be stored offline, they are often used to create an air gap that protects backups from remote attacks.
Combined with encryption, this approach adds another convenient layer of protection in case the cartridge gets lost or misplaced.
LTO-10 is the newest generation of the tape format, and the drive is not compatible with LTO-9 media, so existing libraries cannot be reused.
However, it will be compatible with the new 40TB enterprise-grade LTO-10 cartridges (compressed to 100TB). announced by the LTO program last month.
30TB LTO-10 tapes cost around $300 each, compared to the LTO-9 generation which will set you back around $100 (18TB native/45TB compressed).
Regardless, the ability to connect a high-capacity desktop tape system to a compact Apple computer may appeal to archivists, production teams, or users who require cold storage without the need for dedicated rack hardware.
Tape is certainly not intended to replace everyday SSDs, but its capacity, low error rate, and long shelf life are attractive for storing large amounts of data that don't need to be accessed too frequently.
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