A customer is planning to replace their existing LTO-6 tape library with a new HPE StoreEver MSL2024 tape library. They want to reuse their existing LTO-6 tape cartridges for reads and writes.
What is the latest tape drive technology that will provide backward compatibility?
A. LTO8
B. LTO5
C. LTO6
D. LTO7
A is correct.
LTO8 compatible to 7, 6
LTO7 is correct.
https://www.lto.org/lto-generation-compatibility/
LTO8 can’t read LTO6 nor write to it.