[geeks] Fwd: [Bacula-users] LTO tape users beware: Use of MAXELL media harmful to your drives.

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net> wrote:
> This is information everyone who uses LTO tape should probably have.
>
> Turned out my tapes included three HP tapes with Maxell media.  All of
> my IBM tapes had Fuji media.  And the Imation tapes were of course all
> Sony media, but that's not a surprise.

Long ago at work, after testing brands, we switched to only using Fuji
tapes.  They were way more reliable than Imation or (bleh) Maxwell
tapes.