I have an LTO 6 drive myself, it also seems to overall handle LTO 5 cartridges faster than LTO 6 specially during writes (with BeFe or MP), LTO 5 i can get 100+mb/s and with compression and adequate data for it 200-300mb/s on LTO 5 all of them LTFS formatted, i don't like using the old ways seems a little too much work for what can be done with windows explorer and drag and drop i don't even mind the slower write speeds for the sake of quick and easy access also playing videos straight off the tape. Also feel like LTO 4 is too small for my needs at this point even LTO 5 is too little data but if you already have one and access to cheap tapes it's still decent :)
