IBM doesn't make the tapes ... FUJI actually makes the tapes (I think one or
two other companies do also) They will sell direct.
Jeff Bach
Home Office Open Systems Engineering
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Stapleton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 5:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ultrium media
Martin Wendel wrote:
> We are buying an IBM 3584 LTO library and after looking at the
specifications
> on HP and IBM Ultrium media it seems they both are compatible with
their own
> hardware and nothing is said about eachothers hardware.
>
> We can get a better price on HP media. Does anyone have any
experience proving
> it is better to go for IBM media than HP media for the IBM
library?
There is one note you might be interested in. Buying HP LTO media
gets
you the cartridges but no barcode labels. Those you will have to buy
from IBM, apply each one *carefully* so that it is straight and in
the
right position (so the robot can read it), and then check the
cartridges
in.[1]
[1] Had a customer do this exact thing. The cartridges worked fine,
but
he ended spending more[2] than if he had ordered the media from IBM.
[2] If you count the money he had to spend on the barcode and the
hours
he spent applying the labels[3]
[3] And in some cases reapplying, and reapplying, and....
--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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