The Drives – Overview and Drives – Analysis screens show attributes related to drives. There is one set of attributes for StorageTek enterprise drives and a slightly different set for LTO drives.
The drive attributes are organized into the following sections.
Detail for Enterprise Drives (part 1)
Detail for Enterprise Drives (part 2)
Detail for LTO Drives (part 1)
Detail for LTO Drives (part 2)
Values for these attributes are assigned when STA first starts tracking the drive.
Information about the drive properties.
Details about the media used in the drive's most recent exchange that occurred during or before this aggregation period.
Details about the drive's most recent exchange that occurred during or before this aggregation period.
Total activity counts for the drive over the last 30 days. These values are updated with each completed exchange involving the drive.
Additional details about the drive's most recent exchange. This section appears only for StorageTek enterprise drives, such as 9840D or T10000C.
Additional details about the drive's most recent exchange. This section appears only for LTO drives.
Details about the location of the drive within the library. These attributes are updated whenever a library data collection is performed.
Information about the library complex where the drive is located, as of the last completed library data collection.
Information about media validation and drive calibration and qualification operations for this drive. This section appears only for drives that have been assigned to the media validation drive pool through SL Console.