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Deanan Dasilva
October 8, 2015 at 4:57 pm in reply to: LTO-7 Specifications Posted – get the real story here

The single drive model is also in their sales manual as “Available” on Nov 20th:

https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_sm/8/897/ENUS3580-_h18/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en

Who knows on what available means but it doesn’t seem like a normal product speculative announcement.
Deanan Dasilva
October 8, 2015 at 8:38 am in reply to: LTO-7 Specifications Posted – get the real story here

Looks like it’s getting more concrete…

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/rubriques/tapes/ibm-first-to-reveal-lto-7-product/

“IBM was the first company to launch an LTO-6 drive available November 9, 2012.
Three years later, it’s also the first one to reveal an LTO-7 device supposed to reach the market on November 20, 2015, as Big Blue continues one of the strongest promoter of tape technology in the industry since decades.”
Deanan Dasilva
October 7, 2015 at 7:01 pm in reply to: LTO-7 Specifications Posted – get the real story here

The standalone drive says it’s planned for Nov 20th. I prefer the HP drives but that seems like a good indicator that the drives would be available in Q4.

https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUSC15-044&appname=USN#115-136
Deanan Dasilva
October 7, 2015 at 6:10 pm in reply to: LTO-7 Specifications Posted – get the real story here

Ran across this today:
https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/2/897/ENUS115-132/ENUS115-132.PDF

Curiously, it says 10/23/15 as the release date for the library
but maybe that’s not with the lto-7 drive?

Deanan