• A reduction of up to 39% Total Cost of Ownership of your tape library by replacing LTO8 technology4
• Up to 11% better data transfer rates from the previous tape generation, to 400 MB/s5 for full high cartridges and 250-280 MB/s for half high cartridges
• LTO 9 tape drive support for the new IBM LTO Ultrium 9 data cartridges, with support for SAS 12 Gb and Fibre Channel (FC) 8 Gb interfaces
• IBM TS4500 tape library release with support for LTO 9 with SAS-12 Gb and FC-8 Gb interfaces
• Enhancements to IBM Spectrum Archive family support for Enterprise, Library and Single drive Editions.