A customer is planning to replace their existing LTO-6 tape library with a new HPE StoreEver MSL2024 tape library. They want to reuse their existing LTO-6 tape cartridges for reads and writes.
What is the latest tape drive technology that will provide backward compatibility?
The correct answer is LTO7. LTO-7 drives have backward compatibility with LTO-6 tape cartridges, which means they can read and write data to LTO-6 tapes. This backward compatibility makes LTO-7 the latest technology that will meet the customer's requirement to reuse their existing LTO-6 tape cartridges for both reads and writes.
Correction, D. LTO-7 is correct because question mentioned "Read and Write" capabilities.
LTO8 caompatible LTO7 LTO6
A. LTO8
LTO7 can read and write LTO6 tapes. LTO8 can only read LTO 6 tapes For me it is D