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With LTOs you have to kind of migrate every third generation onto new standard as well. Any given generation drive can read two previous ones, and write to prev
by Keyframe 6y ago
With LTOs you have to kind of migrate every third generation onto new standard as well. Any given generation drive can read two previous ones, and write to previous and current. It's not a forever drive. Also, it's not also as reliable to story only one copy. It adds up, but still better than spinning rust.
- smueller1234 6y agoActually reading tapes from two generations back can decrease the lifetime of your drive considerably. So in a larger setup you're probably not going to want to skip as many generations (in part because you can and practically must incrementally upgrade).