Hello there,
I have been exploring Dell tape options, looking for answers for the below questions:
- Based on my reading I understood that different LTOs have different backup rates, want to check if the tape media(other than tape drive) as well impact overall performance, say LTO-7 media in LTO-7 drive vs LTO-6 media in LTO-7 drive, I read LTO-7 has 300MB/s, does LTO-6 media in LTO-7 drive bring down the speed to 160MB/s?
- Are there any specific guidelines or sizing tool that is in place from Dell, which can be used to select a specific model of tape based on capacity and performance details from customer, any online tool?
- Any updated wiki/dell internal site where can I find latest information related to Dell tapes
- Does tapes have any raid / mirroring capabilities at hardware level, or is it handled only by backup software?
- In case any tape drive / media fails? How this is handled automatically? Is there a concept of hot spare? Any data rebuilding? What is the concept in case of data loss?
- what is the number of FC ports per drive across each tape library - say TL2000, TL4000, ML series (ML I found it is 2 fc ports per drive)
thanks
Phani