Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
I've demonstrated, multiple times, dropping an LTO tape from waist height, kicking it across the floor so that it bounces of the wall, inserting it into a drive.... and reading data. Do that with a HD in a USB caddy. Modern tape, unless you crush the enclosure, is just this side of impervious.
LTO tapes must be better made than the DLT tape media I'm used to. Dropping it from waist height had a good chance of knocking the reel off center inside the cartridge. Our tape drive manufacturer had warned us not to load any tapes where the reel wasn't perfectly centered, lest it jam in the drive. I suppose if I'd ever really needed the data off one I'd dropped I could have sent it somewhere to be repaired, though. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org