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There's the very interesting new feature of LTO7M and 8M, which adds 50% capacity to your LTO7/8 tapes when formatting them with a - respectively - LTO8/9 drive
by wazoox 4y ago
There's the very interesting new feature of LTO7M and 8M, which adds 50% capacity to your LTO7/8 tapes when formatting them with a - respectively - LTO8/9 drive. A 30$, 9TB LTO7 tape is the cheapest storage you can buy.
- zozbot234 4y agoIt's a one-way conversion, and then you're stuck with that one LTO generation; a LTO7M tape won't work anymore in a LTO7 drive.
- justsomehnguy 4y agoIt's a moot point. If you are buying the whole system new then you buy M-capable drives. If you are stuck with G7 drives - then you don't format your tapes to M, even if you have 1 G7M drive. And if you value your data, ie you want to able to recover it someday then you need N+1 drives of needed generation and format anyway.