IBM Magstar is top definitely the top of the line, but it comes at a
high price. For a more reasonable price tag I would recommend the
new LTO technology from IBM, HP and Seagate. It has a much higher
capacity and the performance is 2.5 times that of the Quantum's DLT8000
line. Plus it's an "open format" so drives will be available from
several manufacturers.
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Joshua S. Bassi
IBM Certified - AIX Support, HACMP,
Enterprise Disk(Shark)& Tape Solutions
Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM
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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Marc D. Taylor
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 1:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tape Library question
Hello All,
I am wanting to know what the ADSM public thinks of certain tape
libraries. We are considering libraries from Breece-Hill, Qualstar and
Overland Data. At the present time, they we are leaning toward the dlt8000
as the drives. In particular, if you had it to do all over again, would
you pick the same company and why?
Feel free to respond offline.
Thanks,
Marc Taylor
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Marc D. Taylor
Research Programmer
Beckman Institute Systems Services
Room 1714
Office: 217-244-7373, Fax: 217-333-8206
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