Um... come on now. You can't just shoot it down without some explanation. Are you a VAR that gets a commission for selling a different tape library or do you have an actual reason for shooting down his idea?
Ben -----Original Message----- From: Paul Bergh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: overland tape library? Big mistake!!! Alexander Lazarevich wrote: > Hey, > > Does anyone use the Overland Storage Neo 4100 or 4200 LTO-1 tape library > with TSM 5.1 server? > > We are upgrading our tape library and our ADSM server (3.1 -> 5.1), and > are trying to decide what library to get. We've been looking at the IBM > 3583-L36 Tape Library, which uses 36 LTO-1 tapes, up to 7TB compressed > capacity, with two LTO drives, which is gonna cost about 36K. > > But I recently found out about Overland storage which sells a product > called NEO4100, with 3 LTO-1 drives, 60 tape slots, up to 12TB capacity > compressed, which sells for about 30K. > > So it seems like for 6K less we can get almost twice the capacity, with an > extra drive! That extra drive would totally kick butt. But if Overland > hardware sucks and breaks and doesn't work well with TSM 5.1, then screw > it. > > Any comments? > > Thanks in advance! > > Alex > --- --- > Alex Lazarevich | Systems Administrator | Imaging Technology Group > Beckman Institute - University of Illinois > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (217)244-1565 | www.itg.uiuc.edu > --- ---
