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Hi team, anyone can share the latest (last??) HP Q6Q68A LTO-8 SAS Drive Firmware? More specifically "LTO_30750_SAS_P381_MSL.frm" Thanks! PS: This is a good reason to move away from HPE to others like IBM => HPE paywalls firmware while others remain open

Hi guys, have been using lots of MSL2024s and their larger brothers over the past couple of years, now a TS3100 ended up on my desk. While L&TT is pretty straightforward, I can't really befriend myself with ITDT (both SE and GE). Anyone here, that has / had one IBM Tape Library and managed to...

Alright, time for a stupid question - so right now I have 4x4TB HGST Deskstar NAS drives on a raidz1 setup (in a MicroServer G7 N40L via FreeNAS), and I realized that maybe I should've slapped an extra 4TB up top and ran it on raidz2, my guess is that it might be a little too late for that one...

Finally nearing the time to drop some coin on hardware. One of the first things on the list is an LTO6 tape drive for an offline media archive and also for backup use. I am wondering if there is any reason to choose one maker (ie IBM vs Quantum vs HP) or model over another. About the only...

I think I posted once in the past six months ago about other LTO users and got scarce responses... if anyone can suggest forums/places to go to better discuss this i'm all ears. I don't know where else to ask or to join to ask. I'm planning on building a server dedicated to writing LTO6 tapes...