The Linear Tape Open (LTO) consortium has reacted to higher capacity disk drives and SSDs with a 33 percent LTO-10 raw capacity upgrade to 40 TB and a target downgrade for the LTO-14 generation of 365 TB from the prior 576 TB.

LTO tape is used for archiving and the consortium of HPE, IBM, and Quantum is responsible for the LTO generational roadmap. The current generation is LTO-10 and it was originally specified to have a 36 TB raw capacity. In the event, sole LTO tape drive supplier IBM and tape-ribbon manufacturers Fujifilm and Sony were only able to achieve 30 TB. As disk drive capacity has passed 32 TB and SSD capacity is now at the 120 TB-plus level, tape cartridge capacity has been lagging behind.