Look at the cooling requirements of HP drives, apparently they caused problems in some environments that did not have a decent air reticulation environment.
Suad -- On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:56:52AM -0600, Wu, Jie wrote: > 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
