It has a manufacturers suggested retail price of US$16,499; the Magnum20 library delivers a cost per terabyte of less than $550, according to Tom Ward, president and CEO of Exabyte.

For the enterprise, the Exabyte Magnum20 LTO library puts up to 150 cartridges into a 20U rack-mount enclosure. It can be partitioned into as many as four virtual tape libraries, using LTO-1 and ...