Many thanks for the community operations meeting we had together last week.
As discussed during the AOB part, I am preparing a survey for the CTA workshop in November 2026.
Below is an initial set of questions for this survey, collected during that meeting, and I woud like to enrich it with additional questions from the CTA community.
Please reply in this thread with the questions you would like to include in this survey: What would you like to hear from other CTA tape sites?
2026-11 CTA WS survey initial questions
- Do you have temperature/humidity issues with drives/media? (multiple choice drives|media)
- TS1170? LTO-9? LTO-10?
- Temperature and humidity conditions leading to issues (free text) per technology
- Consequences on local tape operations (free text)
- Are you using LTO-10 drives?
- Are there any issues with these drives?
- Did you encounter multiple tape drive setup VS tape issues?
- Are you regularly running CTA tape verification?
- Do you plan to purchase another tape library in the next 12 months?
- If YES, which models are you considering?
- Are you worried about compatibility with CTA (
cta-rmcd)?
- Planning to schedule monthly CTA community operations meeting
- Feedback for community meeting #2?
- What do you expect from CTA community operations meetings?