alt Hacker NewsNew drives must read and write the previous generation of tapes and they must read the tape generation that was before the previous.
New drives must read and write the previous generation of tapes and they must read the tape generation that was before the previous.
Which is disgrace when you consider that no optical drive is yet available that will not read original red book cd roms from the 80s.
You say "it can read from one generation ago" as if it was some great thing about LTO when it is just a laughably fast obsolescence policy and what really kills it for a home user.
A blueray drive manufactured today can still fscking write to a 90s CD-R from way before LTO even existed.