FUJIFILM North America Corporation has made its FUJIFILM LTO Ultrium Generation 10 40TB data cartridges available in the US, extending the company’s LTO Ultrium tape lineup to its highest capacity media to date. The product targets long-term retention and large-scale archive use cases where cost per TB, air-gap options, and power-at-rest characteristics can matter as much as recall performance.
The FUJIFILM LTO Ultrium 10 cartridge is rated for 40 TB native capacity and up to 100 TB compressed. Fujifilm says the media is built on “advanced magnetic particles,” described as a hybrid of Barium Ferrite and Strontium Ferrite, along with aramid base film technology.
Fujifilm also points to an expanded operational temperature and humidity range versus prior LTO generations, positioning the cartridge for more demanding physical environments. (The company did not publish the specific temperature or humidity limits in the materials describing the product.)
For operators thinking about active archive architectures, LTO’s fundamentals haven’t changed: tape can sit offline and consume no power at rest, and an air-gapped copy remains a straightforward control against ransomware scenarios that target always-online storage. The practical question is less about raw cartridge capacity and more about how the surrounding system—drives, libraries, operational processes, and retrieval SLAs—fits the organization’s archive and compliance requirements.
FUJIFILM LTO Ultrium 10 40TB cartridges are designed to work with LTO-10 tape drive systems, enabling adoption without changing to a different drive generation. Fujifilm said the cartridges are available now in the US market, and directed customers to purchase through Fujifilm sales representatives or authorized resellers.
Takuma Yano, General Manager, Data Storage Solutions at FUJIFILM North America Corporation, said, “With the introduction of Fujifilm’s LTO-10 40TB in the U.S., we’re giving customers a powerful new tool for building long-term storage solutions that keep data accessible, protected, and cost efficient for decades.”
FUJIFILM North America Corporation described the availability as aimed at US organizations in media and entertainment, finance, hyperscale cloud, high performance computing research, healthcare, and other data-intensive sectors.
