Introducing VeriTape® - The LTO
Cartridge Analyzer
All LTO Cartridges have an internal
memory chip called Cartridge Memory (CM). This chip contains vital information
about the cartridge. Our reader extracts the information and displays it in a
concise way. In addition the VeriTape calculates
eriScoreTM
a single quality number based on all available information.
How can I justify the expenditure?
Identifying
bad or marginal cartridges before problems happen can prevent costly
failures to complete the job (called job "abends" for abnormal end of jobs by
Imation). The cost of a job abend and rerun can be quite high. Imation Corp
estimates the cost of a job rerun for an average data center to be about $1,000.
In the figure below Imation projects the cost as a function of job reruns for 3
abends/week and for 7 abends/week.
Identify deteriorating cartridges before
they fail
Most systems identify defective cartridges after they fail. These cartridge
failures can be disruptive and expensive. But with
eriTape®
you can monitor any cartridge and retire aging or damaged ones before they fail,
not afterwards.
Storing mission critical data
When saving critical data to tape you must have complete confidence that your
data can be recovered without problems.
eriTape®
enables you to identify and eliminate any cartridge that does not meet your
standards.
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here to download the
VeriTape® brochure.
Hardware & Software requirements
- The VeriTape scanner can be connected to
most systems. All you need is a USB port.
- The VeriTape application software runs
under all recent Windows operating systems
Data displayed with VeriTape
- Percentage of records in error
- Recovered read & write errors
- Unrecovered read & write errors
- Servo errors & fatal servo errors
- Number of bytes written & read
- Number of cartridge loads
- Age of cartridge
- Manufacturer of cartridge
- Manufacturer of the tape
- Details of the last four times the
cartridge was used
Loading the Cartridge
VeriTape is approximately the same size as an
LTO cartridge. Unlike an LTO tape drive, however, VeriTape does not need
to thread the tape in order to access the CM. Just place the cartridge on top of
the reader and the display immediately shows the relevant information. A
locator feature in the frame matches a notch in the cartridge, thereby ensuring
that the cartridge is always correctly oriented. Scanning an LTO cartridge
takes about 3 seconds.
