Is anyone using the overland tape library and if they are... how do you like it?
David C. Pearson
IS Production Support Analyst
System & Network Service
Snohomish County PUD # 1
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-----Original Message-----
From: bbullock [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 1:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: overland tape library?
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
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