> On May 24, 2019, at 8:28 PM, Aaron Taylor <atay...@subgeniuskitty.com> wrote: > > 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
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
