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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2011
Matthew Thomas Starr, Lafayette, CO (US);
Nathan Christopher Thompson, Boulder, CO (US);
Daniel Spencer Zmolek, Boulder, CO (US);
Mark Lorin Lantry, Erie, CO (US);
Matthew Thomas Starr, Lafayette, CO (US);
Nathan Christopher Thompson, Boulder, CO (US);
Daniel Spencer Zmolek, Boulder, CO (US);
Mark Lorin Lantry, Erie, CO (US);
Spectra Logic, Corporation, Boulder, CO (US);
Abstract
A magazine-based data storage library is described that includes plurality of chambers each adapted to hold a magazine, that in turn, is adapted to hold a plurality of tape cartridges. The storage library further includes a tape drive adapted to read and write data to and from tape cartridges. The storage library further includes a vacant chamber that shifts from a first chamber when a recently used magazine is disposed therein to a second chamber when a new magazine is withdrawn there from. The recently used magazine most recently being withdrawn from a different chamber than the first chamber where it is later disposed.