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March 24th, 2021 12:00
TL2000 replacement drive
I think I need a replacement drive for my TL2000 LTO4 SAS. It will do small backups but when a backup is near the tape capacity it fails. Using Backup Exec and they claim it is a bad drive.
It took half a dozen calls to Dell to get anyone to call me back and they keep quoting me tapes. They don't seem to know what a tape drive is. They finally gave up and told me all drives for TL2000s are discontinued. I would like to upgrade the drive if possible. Does anyone know where I can find part numbers or someone at Dell to help?
DELL-Josh Cr
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March 24th, 2021 16:00
Hi,
Sorry that you had a hard time getting the part numbers for the tape drives. Here are the part numbers for the different drives. The TL2000 is discontinued so you may need to get these from a third party.
LTO-4 330-BBDB
LTO-5 47C98
LTO-6 183KW
LTO-7 8M5F0
Joels Place
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March 25th, 2021 13:00
Apparently there are a bunch of different part numbers since my IBM LTO4 drive in it now is a different part number. This at least gives me something to go on. Thanks!
DELL-Josh Cr
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March 25th, 2021 14:00
You’re welcome, let us know if you have any additional questions.
noel Brodie
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August 5th, 2021 17:00
sorry for the late reply.
If you upgrade the drive to a newer model, remember the following LTO6 drives will read and write to LTO6 and LTO5 tapes , it will only read LTO4 tapes. LTO6 drives will not read any LTO3 or LTO2 tapes