This sounds real good.
The Overland Neo 4100 comes with 3 year warranty, 1 year of that with same
day on site service. After that I'm pretty sure I can service the thing
myself. After the 3 years is up, the maintanance contract, through
Overland, is pretty well priced.
Thanks for the feedback,
Alex
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Beckman Institute - University of Illinois
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On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Kjell Svensson wrote:
> Hi Alexander!
>
> I´ve used some older Overlands together with TSM, with no greater difficulties than
> with other brands.
> Also I have used a LOT of Cpq/HP MSL-series, both with SDLT and LTO, which is
> actually the Overland 2000-series and I really, really like it, especially equipped
> with LTO-drives.
> The 4000-series is the same machine with a bigger housing, so in my opinion a great
> machine!
>
> One concideration though is the availibility of support for the hardware, a very
> important issue you´d be wise to check out carefully before deciding. Sometimes the
> more expensive license-manufactured brands just makes more sence in the long run.
>
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> Från: Alexander Lazarevich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Skickat: on 2003-03-19 20:23
> Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Kopia:
> Ämne: overland tape library?
>
>
>
> 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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> Beckman Institute - University of Illinois
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (217)244-1565 | www.itg.uiuc.edu
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