If your storage admin is a bit excitable today, be kind: 45TB LTO-9 tape media and drives just debuted

Fujifilm and HPE selling cartridges, Quantum selling drives, IBM tape libraries add support

The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) organisation has signed off on efforts by Fujifilm and Sony to create tapes that conform with the LTO-9 standard – meaning that new-generation tapes with 45 terabytes of capacity are now on sale.…

from The Register