jmattcross
15 years agoLevel 2
LTO3 or LTO4
Hi everyone,
We are currently running an LTO3 media drive with uncompressed tape capacity of 400 gigs. I would like to move to the higher capacity LTO4 tapes with 800 gigs uncompressed capacity. ...
You can't use LTO3 drive to read LTO4 tapes.
You can use LTO4 drive to read and write LTO3 media as well as LTO4 media.
Of course LTO3 medias written by LTO4 drive can be read using LTO3 drive
Here is a table from IBM Redbook "IBM System Storage Tape Library Guide for Open Systems"