LTO-7 with a Mac

[Bob Zelin]

what computer are you using ?
A Win 10 PC ? An old Mac Pro ?

If you have a thunderbolt Mac, you use this –
https://www.mlogic.com/products/mtape-thunderbolt-lto-7

or this –
https://www.mlogic.com/products/mtape-thunderbolt-lto-7

instead of your Quantum, you should get this –
https://magstor.com/collections/magstor-sas-tape-drives/products/magstor-lto7-hh-sas-external-desktop-tape-drive-6tb-ltfs-sas-1hl7i-lto-7

and for your external LTO 7, you can just use this as the host card, for both Mac and Win 10 PC, if you don’t have thunderbolt
https://www.atto.com/products/adapters/sas-sata/6gb-pcie-30/ESAS-H680-000

and you should read this post, with feedback from YoYotta, and Magstor –
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/330/2236

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com

[Christian Zorzi]

Dear Bob, thanks for your answer.

I didn’t think that my post was that unclear.

Looking for SAS HBA to use this box:

https://www.sonnettech.com/product/echoexpressseltb3.html

So we’re talking about

MAC > TB3 > SAS > LTO

The external Quantum LTO-7 SAS drive is already sitting here.

[Martin Greenwood]

You can use either the ATTO H680 or H1280 inside the Sonnet chassis, both work well with LTO and LTFS.

More details here on our website.

https://yoyotta.com/help/installATTO.html

Martin Greenwood

CTO

YoYotta

[Christian Zorzi]

Thank you, Martin.

[Neil Sadwelkar]

I have two of these – Sonnet Echo Express SEL – one Thunderbolt 2 and the other Thunderbolt 3.
In one, I have an Atto SAS H680 and in the other an Atto SAS H1280.

This Sonnet model is a ‘low-profile’ PCIe card adapter, so make sure you have the low profile bracket with the SAS card. If you’re buying a new H680 or H1280, then it comes with a low profile adapter in the box.
And after you finish installing the card with the low profile bracket, keep the normal height bracket safely, just in case you need to later install it in a full height expander.

Your LTO drive may have shipped with a cable but that’s likely to be a SFF-8088 to SFF-8088 cable. That will work with the Atto H680, but for the H1280 you’ll need a SFF-8644 to SFF-8088 cable to hookup to the SAS LTO drive.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India