![]() LTO Tape Drive Cleaning Over time, all tape drives need to be cleaned with a dedicated cleaning tape. The average cleaning tape can be used up to 50 times before it is used up, and is considered as "expired." After the cleaning tape expires, the tape is not available and needs to be discarded. Clean tapes are considered consumer products and customers must provide these consumer products to keep tape drives running. There are two basic cleaning procedures that can be performed. The first, and most common, is called reactive drive cleaning. After the drive has performed a predetermined number of read/write hours, or if the calendar-based plan is cleared in hours, days, or weeks, the active drive is cleared. One thing to consider is that the HP-branded IBM brand LTO driver does not have this same limitation. The LTO driver needs to write active drive cleanup at least every 100 hours. This is because HP-branded LTO drives disable the passive release of clean tape alerts when performing write-only operations. Tape alert 20 is an "immediate cleanup" event, meaning it needs to be cleaned immediately. Tape alarm 21 is a "cleanup cycle" event, which means that the tape drive may receive an "Expired Clean Media" event while the tape is still loading an expired cleaning tape into the drive. The library cleanup process can be managed automatically by the library or application software. This is often referred to as "library management" or "application management" drive cleanup. The following are two types of cleaning management and their professionalism and services. Library Management Drive Cleaning When using library-managed tape drive cleaning, the tape library performs tape drive cleaning processes and manages the storage of cleaning tapes. According to the defined cleaning plan, the library automatically moves the cleaning tape in and out of the drive as needed. The storage element must be defined as a "cleaning program" that cleans tapes in the tape library. With the library management cleanup feature enabled, most cleanup processes are performed in a "reactive" manner. Some (but not all) libraries can actively clear the overall plan based on the number of hours read/written by the drive. The main challenge when using tape library Managed Drive Cleaning is that you must import and export cleaning cartridges as cleaning media. If you do not introduce the cleaning tape as a cleaning media, the library will not treat it as a cleaning tape. If a cleaning process is required, the cleaning belt cannot be used. We generally recommend using library management cleanup only if the application cannot manage the drive cleanup process. Application Management Drive Cleanup It is highly recommended to use application software to manage cleaning as it can define more precise cleaning schedules. Another advantage is cleaning the tape. The cleaning tape is usually identified by its media bar code label number. As long as the cleaning tape is in the tape library, the application software can use the tape according to the needs of the cleaning process. At a minimum, reactive drive cleaning procedures (libraries or application management) should be configured to properly clean the drive as needed. If necessary, you can manually install the cleaning cartridge into the drive, but you can manually intervene through the library GUI or application software. Read More: More Blogs:
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![]() LTO-8Some suppliers are already talking about the production of LTO-8. Although LTO-7 is not yet implemented, LTO-8 tape drives have not yet been mass-produced. Some people say that LTO-8 caters to niche markets for big companies and industrial clouds. In contrast, since the price of LTO-7 is around $100 per 6TB (15TB compression), LTO-7 may be the last iteration for small and medium-sized customers. LTO-8 is not a niche marketLTO-8 tape drive capacity increases, raw data volume is 12.8 TB, the compression rate is 32 TB, data throughput is 472 Mbps local data volume and 1,180 Mbps compressed data throughput, should get “8 unsupported h8” ability. (This is my memes, but you can use it if you want.) As for the "niche" thing, I must disagree. So LTO-8 has a 32TB capacity and seems to be exactly what doctors ordered for companies most likely to use tape technology in large quantities: cloud and data-intensive vertical industries such as medical, surveillance, research laboratories, and oil and gas stations. These companies are reusing tapes for old secondary storage roles. The special role of tapeI know you have heard that the tape does not meet the needs of the activity file. I recently wrote a column about this topic for Storage magazine. The answer is "Maybe, maybe not." But the truth is that a large amount of data we produce today is not what big data analytics are. The cloud wants to sell "a huge storage warehouse" to accommodate all the rarely accessed and never modified data that consumers create using their megapixel cell phone camera. The tape is now almost the technology of choice for all these services. Getting large amounts of data from the real world into the cloud requires expensive wires and cables. The tape is an important mechanism for data transmission without a WAN or metropolitan area network. Eight is a special thingThe truth was told that the eight bits in LTO-8 were nicknames. In hard science, there are many applications for eight, from the method used to describe particles in particle physics to the second magic number in nuclear physics. Eight is the number of vertices of the cube in the geometry. It is the first number mathematically neither prime nor half. It is the number of oxygen atoms, and in biology, it is part of the definition of the Arachnida and Octopoda life classes. Of course, in computer science, it is the basis of the numbering system used to describe the digital information itself - 8 bits to 1 byte. Tape Innovations as Durable and Emerging ChallengesThe new LTO Generation 8 doubles the cartridge capacity from the previous 7th generation LTO, enabling customers to store up to 30 TB* per cartridge, providing more cost-effective long-term data retention. In addition, the LTO-8 system's tape drive can transmit data at speeds of up to 900 MB* per second, or over 3.24 terabytes of data per hour per drive, allowing faster transfer of large files. LTO-8 also includes a new format feature that allows customers to increase the capacity of the latest LTO Gen 7 cartridge up to 50% to store 22.5 TB* of corporate data. If you are in a high-volume data industry such as video production and entertainment, LTO-8 will be the most cost-effective way to archive your data. Learn more about LTO technology and want to buy this tape at the best price... visit https://www.digitaldevicesgroup.com/ More Blog: |
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