Media Tracking and Reporting Media Lifecycle Management records
30 data points every time a tape is loaded, giving you vital statistical and
diagnostic information that helps you proactively manage your tape media
throughout its life. BlueScale Media Lifecycle Management (MLM)
provides media tracking and reporting that lets you review data about
every MLM-compatible tape and cleaning cartridge in your library and
generate reports about media health. You can generate summary reports
with a health overview for the media in the whole library or an individual
partition or you can generate more detailed reports with information about
compression ratios, load counts, write errors, encryption status, and more.

You can also view detailed information about individual cartridges.
BlueScale MLM reporting helps you identify tapes with high error rates or
other problems (for example, a dropped leader). These tapes can then be
removed before they cause data corruption. Use BlueScale reporting to
help identify damaged tapes and dirty tape heads.

Spectra Logic Memory Chip Data Media Lifecycle Management starts with
packaged, bar-coded, MLM-capable, Certified Media (LTO-3 and LTO-4)
and MLM-capable Certified LTO cleaning cartridges from Spectra Logic.
Before shipment, Spectra Logic writes baseline data, including its bar code
information and the date on which the media was certified, to the memory
chip embedded in each cartridge. Throughout its life, the cartridge
continually collects data on its memory chip. Whenever a drive unloads a
cartridge, the drive writes information about the tape to the cartridge
memory chip.