Mitch Seigle of Spectra Logic talks about tape drives' role in AI and data storage and protection with theCUBE's Christophe ...

Last Adic Scalar i500 I used had 6x LTO4 drives, about once every month or 2 it would ask for a cleaning tape for a single drive. So not very frequently at all.

If you think of a 1960s mainframe computer, it’s likely that your mental image includes alongside the cabinets with the blinkenlights, a row of reel-to-reel tape drives. These refrigerator-si… ...

Tape storage continues to be a standard for long-term archival needs due to its durability and capacity, and the Thunderbolt 5 LTO drive is designed for use in data-heavy environments such as ...

Now, for a long time, I've been wondering if I could connect it, or another LTO tape drive, via USB 3.x A while back, I found this reference to an accessory on some of the IBM/Lenovo LTO-5 drives: ...

Design-wise, it is pretty standard stuff. A 19-inch rack, a standard tape drive from Kennedy, a power supply, and some cards. The box takes 240 V, so the computer didn’t get powered up, ...

If you are not making a 900 MB/s tape drive happy with your design, upgrading to a 1200-1400 MB/s tape drive will make that situation worse.

When that happens, the tape drive does not slow down. It keeps writing at 45 MB until the buffer is empty. Then it stops, rewinds and waits for the buffer to be full again before repositioning and ...