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 -----Original Message----- From: Zane Healy [mailto:heal...@avanthar.com] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2019 2:29 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts 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