Archived LTO prices · July to August 2026

LTO Tape Prices: August 2026

Broad guide ranges used on the LTO-6 to LTO-10 price pages through the summer of 2026. These were rounded planning ranges rather than individual listings, so they are wider than the manufacturer snapshots from 2025.

Media

LTO cartridge prices, August 2026

Generation	Native	Cartridge price	Per native TB
LTO-6	2.5 TB	$10-$30	$4-$8/TB
LTO-7	6 TB	$20-$45	$3-$7/TB
LTO-8	12 TB	$40-$70	$3-$5/TB
LTO-9	18 TB	$80-$120	about $5/TB
LTO-10	30 TB	$265-$295 (30 TB), list prices from $400	about $9/TB

Horizontal bars showing the low to high LTO cartridge price range for each generation in the August 2026 snapshot. — Cartridge price ranges per generation in the August 2026 snapshot, in US dollars. The bar spans the low to high price and the figure on the right is the per terabyte estimate where one was recorded.

Notes

Notes on this snapshot

Drive price tables from this edition were not preserved in a usable form, so only cartridge ranges are archived here.

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