we are trying to decide what LTO drives we should purchase: HP's or IBM's. I have a white paper about the "Adaptive Tape Speed" technology used on HP LTO drives. Basicly this technology monitors the data throughput of the drive and adjusts the writing speed of the drive to match the host computer. The paper claims that with this technology, HP LTO drives whith 16M cache is as effective as a drive with 45.6M cache. The paper does make a lot of sense to me. But can anyone who has real-life experience tell me the difference regarding the performance and reliability between the LTO drives from these two companies? Thank you.
Jie
