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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2008
Nils Haustein, Soergenloch, DE;
Stefan Neff, Bingen, DE;
Ulf Troppens, Mainz, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and infrastructure are provided for monitoring and analyzing the storage media quality and the drive hardware performance of a media library. The media library comprises a plurality of removable storage media, a plurality of drive units for said storage media and means for moving said storage media to and from appropriate drive units. The media library is managed by a management system being connected to said media library. At least one reference medium of a known and proven quality to compare the performance of at least one of said storage media in a given drive unit with the performance of said reference medium in said given drive unit and/or to test the performance of at least one given drive unit of said media library when acting on said reference medium.