Not sure for how long your regulatory rules state that you need to keep the archived data on your 3592 cartridges but:
a) The lifetime of a cartridge(or, the data stored on it) can be counted from the first use, not the production date. The physical cartridge itself wont break down into dust, but the magnetics on the tape will sooner or later be unreadable. b) If you need to keep data for a very long tape, I suggest you get another media than using magnetic tapes. The lifetime of the data stored on the tape is quite limited comparted to MO media or something similar. Best Regards Daniel Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Växel: 08-754 98 00 Fax: 08-754 97 30 [email protected] http://www.existgruppen.se Posthusgatan 1 761 30 NORRTÄLJE -----"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> skrev: ----- Till: [email protected] Från: Mehdi Salehi <[email protected]> Sänt av: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> Datum: 10/01/2011 10:36 Ärende: [ADSM-L] the production date of a cartridge Hi, Is there any way to determine the age of a cartridge? We know the purchase date, but it does not necessarily mean that the cartdige has been manufactured around the same date. Maybe it has been stored for a long time before we get it. To be more precise, we have thousands of 3592 cartridges for old J1A cartridges. In order to make sure whether archive data is safe during the period that regulatory states, it is essential to know when a cartridge is physically "dead". Regards, Mehdi
