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C4090-958 · Question #97
A customer has a TS3500 Tape Library with LTO-3 drives installed. As part of a hardware upgrade, the drives are being changed to LTO-6. The customer is concerned about reusing the existing media…
The correct answer is A. None of the tape cartridges will be writable, however, the data can still be read by the LTO-6 drives. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
A customer has a TS3500 Tape Library with LTO-3 drives installed. As part of a hardware upgrade, the drives are being changed to LTO-6. The customer is concerned about reusing the existing media, including already purchased but unused tape cartridges. What advice should the technical specialist give the customer?
Options
- ANone of the tape cartridges will be writable, however, the data can still be read by the LTO-6 drives
- BRetain the written tape cartridges for later recovery;
- CRetain the written tapes and a LTO-3 drive for later recovery;
- DTapes written by LTO-3 drives will not be readable by LTO-6 drives;
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