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That is the range of temperatures if you are going to be storing the tape for over 6 months.
by protomyth 7y ago
That is the range of temperatures if you are going to be storing the tape for over 6 months.
- sliken 7y agoYes, note the operational temperature is below 115F as well.
- protomyth 7y agoThat's if you are actively trying to do backup.
- sliken 7y agoTrue, I don't remember if the backup software was running. However we lost tapes in the cartridge in the drive (7 tapes I think) and also tapes in other cartridges (banks of 7). I think we had 4 cartridges of 7, then upgraded to a newer robot that had 8 cartridges of 11. At the time I was pretty shocked, and asked around and apparently it wasn't a particularly unusual event. Fortunately we always kept a cartridge rotated out to a different room.
- sliken 7y agoAlso keep in mind the monitoring for the room hit 115F, so the temp inside the tape drive/robot might have been over 115F. Similar with the drives, but the drives were fine.