Sales Figures
The presence of five certified media manufacturers and four certified mechanism manufacturers has produced a competitive market. This has led to attractive prices for customers and high sales volumes for manufacturers. In 2002 LTO out-shipped SDLT by nearly 2 to 1. Sales since then have dominated other "super" formats (SDLT, SAIT). As a result, Quantum discontinued development of new DLT products in February 2007 and Sony followed suit by declaring AIT End-of-Life in March 2010.
| Year | Drives sold this year |
Total drives sold |
Cartridges sold this year |
Total cartridges sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 1,000,000 | |||
| 2002 | 175,000 | |||
| 2003 | 262,000 | 350,000 | ||
| 2004 | 354,000 | |||
| 2005 | 461,000 | 1,000,000 | 30,000,000 | |
| 2006 | 1,500,000 | 50,000,000 | ||
| 2007 | 2,000,000 | 80,000,000 | ||
| 2008 | 2,500,000 | 100,000,000 | ||
| 2009 | 3,300,000 | 132,000,000 |
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