Quantum MR-V1MQN-01 Accessory Data Cartridge DLTtape VS1 (MR-V1MQN-01) Media 80GB (Native) / 160GB (

Hey everyone, so we've got another teardown to do today, what we're going to look at is a LTO-3 tape drive. An LTO drive is used as tape storage, backup for computers. Developed in the late 1990s So we're going to take a look at that, but first i'm going to show you the device it came out of, because i just picked this up off ebay broken i've just fixed it up. I am going to take the drive out and i am going to teardown the drive but the actual unit here is going to go off to a friend of mine who wants to put an LTO-5 tape drive in it and convert it. So this is a dell TL-2000 tape library, it's a 19" rack unit which can take one or two LTO tape drives and can also store 24 LTO tapes and there is a robot mechanism which takes the tapes and pops them into the drive so you can access them over the network. As i said this takes upto 24 of these LTO tapes and it's completely automated system