Recommended Tape/Optical Drive Drivers
This page details the suggested driver variants for the use of LTO and ODA drives, with XenData archive management software. Clicking on the driver will provide acquisition and installation details.
| IBM Drives | Windows 10/11 | Windows Server 2016 | Windows Server 2019 | Windows Server 2022 | Windows Server 2025 |
| IBM LTO-10 SAS | Microsoft | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | IBM | IBM |
| IBM LTO-9 Fibre | Microsoft | IBM | IBM | IBM | IBM |
| IBM LTO-9 SAS | Microsoft | IBM | IBM | IBM | IBM |
| IBM LTO-8 Fibre | Microsoft | IBM | IBM | IBM | IBM |
| IBM LTO-8 SAS | Microsoft | IBM | IBM | IBM | IBM |
| IBM LTO-7 Fibre | Microsoft | IBM | IBM | IBM | IBM |
| IBM LTO-7 SAS | Microsoft | IBM | IBM | IBM | IBM |
| IBM LTO-6 Fibre | Microsoft | IBM | IBM | IBM | IBM |
| IBM LTO-6 SAS | Microsoft | IBM | IBM | IBM | IBM |
| IBM LTO-5 Fibre | Microsoft | IBM | IBM | IBM | IBM |
| IBM LTO-5 SAS | Microsoft | IBM | IBM | IBM | IBM |
| IBM LTO-4 Fibre | Microsoft | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support |
| IBM LTO-4 SAS | Microsoft | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support |
| IBM LTO-3 | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support |
| IBM LTO-2 | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support |
| HPE Drives | Windows 10 | Windows Server 2012 R2 | Windows Server 2016 | Windows Server 2019 | Windows Server 2022 |
| HPE LTO-8 Fibre | Microsoft | HPE | HPE | HPE | HPE |
| HPE LTO-8 SAS | Microsoft | HPE | HPE | HPE | HPE |
| HPE LTO-7 Fibre | Microsoft | HPE | HPE | HPE | HPE |
| HPE LTO-7 SAS | Microsoft | HPE | HPE | HPE | HPE |
| HPE LTO-6 Fibre | Microsoft | HPE | HPE | HPE | HPE |
| HPE LTO-6 SAS | Microsoft | HPE | HPE | HPE | HPE |
| HPE LTO-5 Fibre | Microsoft | HPE | HPE | HPE | HPE |
| HPE LTO-5 SAS | Microsoft | HPE | HPE | HPE | HPE |
| HPE LTO-4 Fibre | Microsoft | HPE | HPE | HPE | HPE |
| HPE LTO-4 SAS | Microsoft | HPE | HPE | HPE | HPE |
| HPE LTO-3 | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support |
| HPE LTO-2 | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support | Contact XenData Support |
| Sony ODA Drives | Windows 10 | Windows Server 2012 R2 | Windows Server 2016 | Windows Server 2019 | Windows Server 2022 |
| Sony ODA1 Fibre | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA |
| Sony ODA1 USB | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA |
| Sony ODA2 Fibre | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA |
| Sony ODA2 USB | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA |
| Sony ODA3 Fibre | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA |
| Sony ODA3 USB | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA | Microsoft ODA |
| Tandberg Drives | Windows 10 | Windows Server 2012 R2 | Windows Server 2016 | Windows Server 2019 | Windows Server 2022 |
| Tandberg LTO-6 Fiber | Microsoft | Tandberg | Tandberg | Tandberg | Tandberg |
| Tandberg LTO-6 SAS | Microsoft | Tandberg | Tandberg | Tandberg | Tandberg |
| Tandberg LTO-5 Fiber | Microsoft | Tandberg | Tandberg | Tandberg | Tandberg |
| Tandberg LTO-5 SAS | Microsoft | Tandberg | Tandberg | Tandberg | Tandberg |
PBS
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Crew Cuts
I did my research, and the best archive solution was from XenData which manages a robotic LTO library behind the scenes. This helps to minimize our total costs and allows us to focus on producing great content for our customers.
Ideal Systems Singapore
We partnered with XenData for the GlobeCast Broadcast facility rollout, because it offers one of the most cost effective, robust digital video archives on the market and a great migration alternative to some of the more expensive digital video archive vendor offerings.
North Shore Automation
Having completed over 25 joint installations of XenData archive systems, we have found everyone on the XenData team to be both highly professional and super responsive and their technology to be rock solid. They are truly a pleasure to work with.
This is Just a Test
With over 558 TB of content and growing, conventional backup solutions just don’t work for us. Our XenData system allows us to maintain an ongoing mirrored copy of our shared storage while creating replica LTO copies for offsite storage.
Excelencia
We have now installed over 170 XenData archive systems across Mexico and they have proven to be very reliable. In addition, the technical support from XenData has been outstanding.
