Re: Power 8 LTO 5

[broehmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

1. Have a hefty Power 7 that will become off site HA.
2. Our current Investment in LTO 5 tapes. 
3.. Used as a secondary backup tape 

Bill 

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From:   Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   08/10/2017 11:50 AM
Subject:        Re: Power 8 LTO 5
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Why would you?

Get an LTO-7 for the Power 8, it will read LTO-5 tapes just fine.

LTO-7 is twice as fast and hold 4 times more than LTO-5.

Charles


On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:30 AM, <broehmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Does anyone know any reason that an external LTO 5 would not
> be capable of being hooked up to a Power 8? Can't get a timely
> response from my BP.
>
> Bill
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