Last Adic Scalar i500 I used had 6x LTO4 drives, about once every month or 2 it would ask for a cleaning tape for a single drive. So not very frequently at all. We also took really good care of our ...
I recently started a new job (about 2 months) and now have a Dell Poweredge 2800 to manage that has a HP Dat72 drive for backup using Veritas. In the past few weeks the drive clean light has come on ...