Chapter 7 — Importing and Exporting Cartridges Preparing Cartridges for Use
December 2019 User Guide—Spectra T200, T380, and T680 Libraries
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PREPARING CARTRIDGES FOR USE
Before you can load cartridges into the library, you must prepare and load
them into TeraPack or Maintenance TeraPack magazines (referred to as
magazines and maintenance magazines, respectively).
Cartridge Guidelines and Requirements
When preparing cartridges for use, keep the following guidelines and
requirements in mind:
Spectra Certified Media For best performance, use Spectra Certified
Media (both data and cleaning cartridges), which guarantees both media
compatibility and the cartridge itself over its lifetime. Using Spectra
Certified Media also lets you take full advantage of the library’s Media
Lifecycle Management (MLM) features. See Chapter 9 – Configuring and
Using Media Lifecycle Management, beginning on page 265 for detailed
information about using MLM to monitor the health of data and cleaning
cartridges.
Multiple Tape Technology Generations When using multiple tape
technology generations, Spectra Logic strongly recommends configuring
separate partitions for each generation. It is especially important to keep
LTO-4 drives and data cartridges separated from LTO-5 and later
generation drives and data cartridges. This ensures the accuracy of the
LTO-4 media health data (see Media Health Score on page 269 for more
information).
TeraPack Magazines Data cartridges are stored in TeraPack magazines
while they are inside the library. Each TeraPack magazine holds either ten
LTO cartridges or nine TS11xx technology cartridges. Similarly, the
cleaning cartridges used in a cleaning partition are stored in Maintenance
TeraPack magazines. Each maintenance magazine holds the same number
of cartridges as a data cartridge magazine.
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