The LTO-9 Full-Height Fiber Channel Tape Drive (2 RU Enclosure) from MagStor is an LTO-9 tape drive in a 2 RU enclosure with an 8 Gb/s Fiber Channel interface for use in a 19" rack. Give your server direct access to an LTO-9 drive for backups or offloading unused files. Take advantage of LTFS (Linear Tape File System) to easily drag and drop files to and from an 18TB LTO-9 tape. It is compatible with most software and formats that support IBM LTO-9 tape drives.

LTO-9 Tape Drive    8 Gb/s Fiber Channel Interface    Compatible with LTO-8    2 RU / 19" Rack Form Factor

LTO-9 Full Height tape drive

18TB of storage per tape

Read/write LTO-9 and LTO-8 tapes

8G FC Fiber Channel interface

400 MB/s read/write speeds

LTFS compatible drag-and-drop

TAR compatible

30 year LTO media archive life

TAA compliant (tape drives made in Japan)

3 year warranty (upgrade to 5 years US/CAN)

• IBM Spectrum Archive Single Drive Edition (CLI MAC, GUI Windows)
• PreRollPost
• myLTO
• StorageDNA
• YoYotta LTFS
• Third-party LTFS-enhanced archive/backup software
• Third-party TAR-based backup software, Acronis, etc.

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. Does this work on an OS 10.6 Apple?

A: It's an enclosure the OS that you use it with won't matter.

Q: 2. Are these tapes: IBM 95P4436 LTO Ultrium 4 Tape Cartridge (800GB/1.6TB) bar-code labeled?

A: Yes: UPC: 883436006538

Q: 3. Can it be used while charging

A: Yes, the device can be used as a hard drive while it is charging or has devices plugged into it to charge.

Q: 4. How many M.2 drives can be help inside the enclosure? from the picture, it seems there are two slots.

A: The HighPoint RocketMate 110 can house up to 1 M.2 drive.

Q: 5. Is this bus powered

A: This is powered by an internal battery, for charging that battery you would be able to use the included USB cable

Q: 6. what company manufactures this drive?

A: MagStor is the manufacturer of this M-Series LTO-9 SAS Half-Height Add-On Drive.

Q: 7. Is it comptiable to Samsung 1TB 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 Internal SSD? I intend tro use it on iMac 2020 as an external drive for photo editing. Thankls!

A: Yes, it is compatible!

Q: 8. Is there an external case that this drive can be mounted in and then be hooked to a PC or Mac via Thunderbolt?

A: We do not currently carry an appropriate enclosure, but what you would need would be a 5.25" SAS (not SATA) enclosure that supports tape drives.

Q: 9. Can you please confirm if this Thunderbolt(3) drive will work with a iMac(late 2013) that only have Thunderbolt(1) port?With this Apple Thunderbolt adapter https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1294286-REG/apple_mmel2am_a_thunderbolt_3_to_thunderbolt.html Thank you very much

A: You can attach the MTAPE-TB3-LTO8 drive to a Thunderbolt 1 or 2 Mac using the Apple Thunderbolt 3 adapter. The only requirement is that the Mac being running 10.12.6 or higher.

Q: 10. Can this read and retrieve data from LTO 6 tapes?

A: No, it can only read and write LT0-8 and LTO-7.