Slot magazines are the removable cartridge trays a tape autoloader or tape library loads from: multi-slot magazines that hold several tape cartridges at once so a library can cycle through backup media without an operator swapping tapes one at a time. A tape library's automation is only as useful as having a loaded magazine ready to go.
Magazines are library-model-specific - order by the exact autoloader or library model and its rated slot count, since magazine dimensions and slot counts do not carry over between library generations. Keep a spare magazine loaded and ready for any library running an unattended backup schedule, so a full magazine is never the reason a backup job stalls. Label magazines and track which tapes sit in which slots if a library manages more than one rotation set. COLAMCO supplies tape magazines and library media handling hardware for the backup and archival infrastructure business, government, and education organizations depend on.