I bought an as-is used LTO 5 drive from someone who couldn’t test it, for the price it was on eBay I couldn’t pass it up and decided to challenge myself to see if I could at least get it working enough to try out the tape in my data backup structure. This is a more winging-it adventure into what it took to get it working and some of the challenges I faced trying to set this up in a homelab environment, as there’s not a lot of information online on integrating these into a personal homelab, I decided to post this to help point people in the right direction!


*DISCLAIMER: Unfortunately a lot of my commentary is riddled with “ums” and not as natural as I would prefer it to be when doing more unscripted content. It also has a lot of background noise as these tape drives live in server rooms and aren’t meant to run quietly! I hope this video still helps people with their own LTO Tape Adventures!


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Music used:
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