RE: Virtual Tape - spanning volumes -- MIDRANGE-L

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Patrik,
What version of LTO? :-)
If LTO was a standard drive supplied with systems, as some software vendors used to fantasize, then the vendor with the V4R2 maxed out machine with a LTO1 would play heck trying to distribute that tape to the P9 user with their LTO7. That, and that an internal tape drive on a 2U or even a 4U machine would take some serious real estate. Especially for those shops that would only use such a drive for a new vendor software release every few years. And would never use it for their nightly backups.
But I don't hear this from vendors so much anymore. I think they realized this is never going to happen and downloading of new releases is more common with faster internet, etc.
I was going to mention that DVD was kind of a standard but even that is not being supplied much. On my P9's I have to use a portable DVD on the rare occasions that I use one. Most newer laptops don't even come with DVD anymore.
Perhaps the USB thumb drive is the new interchange standard for those who just have to have physical media.

Rob Berendt

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