24 May
2019
24 May
'19
2:29 p.m.
Anyone have any experience on how hard it is to damage an LTO tape. I mean damage them to
the point they split at the seam.
Zane
24 May
24 May
8:28 p.m.
On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 02:29:09PM -0700, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
Anyone have any experience on how hard it is to damage
an LTO tape. I mean
damage them to the point they split at the seam.
I've abused some LTO tapes pretty badly but never managed to split one open.
A tape library I purchased on eBay turned out to be full of 32 tapes. They all
came loose in transit and bounced around inside. The impacts were enough to
destroy both tape drives and the picker mechanism, as well as put some serious
gouges in the interior of the library. Despite this, 31/32 tapes worked
flawlessly and are still in use multiple years later, having passed through my
backup system multiple times. The damaged tape just had a broken plastic hinge
on the little door that flips open to expose the tape leader.
It's only a single data point (or is it 32? :-), so take it for what it's worth.
Aaron
25 May
25 May
10:47 a.m.
On May 24, 2019, at 8:28 PM, Aaron Taylor <ataylor
at subgeniuskitty.com> wrote:
On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 02:29:09PM -0700, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
Realistically that?s sort of what I?d expect from LTO tapes. I?ve never abused them like
I have abused SDLT tapes. Mainly because I?ve never had the chance. I know it?s
amazingly hard to visibly damage SDLT tapes.
Zane
Anyone have any experience on how hard it is to
damage an LTO tape. I mean
damage them to the point they split at the seam.
I've abused some LTO tapes pretty badly but never managed to split one open.
A tape library I purchased on eBay turned out to be full of 32 tapes. They all
came loose in transit and bounced around inside. The impacts were enough to
destroy both tape drives and the picker mechanism, as well as put some serious
gouges in the interior of the library. Despite this, 31/32 tapes worked
flawlessly and are still in use multiple years later, having passed through my
backup system multiple times. The damaged tape just had a broken plastic hinge
on the little door that flips open to expose the tape leader.
It's only a single data point (or is it 32? :-), so take it for what it's worth.
Aaron 
10:50 a.m.
Based upon my interviews for the Computer History Museum of IBM personnel
involved in the development of LTO and its medium, I'd expect it to be very
difficult to damage an LTO tape
See: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102738025
particularly sessions 1 and 5
Tom
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Subject: Damaged LTO tapes
Anyone have any experience on how hard it is to damage an LTO tape. I mean
damage them to the point they split at the seam.
Zane
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