Racks or Drawers for LTO

Nefarious · 11 Apr 2017 at 21:43

What do people use to store their LTO cartridges?

I've been using old CD drawers, but wondered if there was anything more appropriate. Googling didn't seem to show anything helpful, but I may have used the wrong keywords.

Xez · 12 Apr 2017 at 07:36

We use fire proof safes to store our tapes... older tapes we send off to secure offsite storage.

nox_uk · 12 Apr 2017 at 08:00

yep, fireproof safes is the way forward (with an offsite backup)

nutcase · 12 Apr 2017 at 08:02

Turtle case in a fireproof safe offsite.

martynbez · 12 Apr 2017 at 08:05

Massive fire safe other side of the site.

d_brennen · 12 Apr 2017 at 08:11

Manky ol' cardboard boxes in a firesafe

nox_uk · 12 Apr 2017 at 10:50

i'm spotting a common theme here...

Nefarious · 12 Apr 2017 at 13:03

I get the safe part, we keep ours in a vault. But it's what to store them in while they're there. The turtle cases look quite bulky.

This came up because someone was reviewing the tapes and managed to drop a whole bunch of them on the floor (data integrity risk right there). Because we have an 18 month review of each tape to check integrity and 6 year replacement strategy, I was hoping that there was some sort of drawer system available so they could be reviewed safely.

Caged · 14 Apr 2017 at 15:02

Turtle cases used to carry them, stored in a safe.