27–28 Mar 2025
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone
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CERN Perspective on Tape Technology Evolution

27 Mar 2025, 09:15
30m
40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac (CERN)

40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac

CERN

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Plenary CTA Operations Plenary Session

Speaker

Vladimir Bahyl (CERN)

Description

With LHC now in the middle of Run 3, we will present our current tape hardware setup and present our experience with the different components of the technology.
We will start with a reflection on the evolution of our capacity planning vs. increasing storage requirements of the experiments.
We will then report on performance characteristics of both LTO9 and TS1170 tape drives: RAO, environmental aspects and how the technology evolution is impacting our operations.
Lastly, we will share our thoughts about rack size scale-out tape libraries and consideration to replace FC with SAS.

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