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Re: Storage and Archiving
by Andrew Freiband on Mar 22, 2008 at 3:56:20 pm

I'm a newcomer to the LTO option, though I've heard it bandied about in archiving discussions before. The issue there seems to me that a new version is released about every 2 years, since LTO-1 in 2000. But the format's own stated goal is only to be able to read from cartridges that were written in one of the two prior versions. I don't know how it has been in actual practice, but LTO's manufacturers are content to say that LTO-4 drives, the most current version, should NOT necessarily be able to read LTO-1 tapes, which means data written only as long ago as 2002 isn't accessible anymore, without a hefty data transfer and an expensive hardware update.

(see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTO_tape)

Is this just manufacturers setting expectations lower than actual performance? And if not, if LTO is this limited in retrieval ability, how do we use to archive our work without hoarding machines now and putting them in cold storage?


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