topic Re: LTO 6 compression enabled in StoreEver Tape Storage

LTO 6 compression enabled

Joe Borgia — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 13:48:59 GMT

We have an MSL 6480 tape library with LTO 6 drives. This feels instinctively like a dumb question, but can anybody tell me if Ultrium 6 drives come with hardware compression enabled by default? I can't seem to find anywhere either in the RMI or using LTT to enable/disable compression or even verify that it is being used.

Thanks, Joe

Re: LTO 6 compression enabled

Torsten. — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 15:23:21 GMT

You can see this in the drive details.

However, it depends on your data if it is compressable or not.

Re: LTO 6 compression enabled

Joe Borgia — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:13:25 GMT

Strange. The front panel of our 6480 doesn't show information that detailed for our drives. Would there be any other way to get this information?

Re: LTO 6 compression enabled

Joe Borgia — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:15:34 GMT

I take that back. I just looked again and the information is there. Thank you very much.