Mark I have a customer running a 3583 who also needed more tapes and did not want to pay more for IBM tapes. He instead went for Sony LTO tapes. The interesting thing is that the read/write errors always seem to be with the IBM tapes and never with the Sony tapes.
Rgds Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Ferraretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 5:30 AM Subject: Non-IBM LTO tapes in a 3584 > All, > > We're looking at purchasing extra LTO-1 tapes to go in our 3584. To date, we've been running IBM tapes but we've gotten cheaper prices on HP and Imation tapes. Both HP and Imation are priced about 30% less than the IBM tapes. > > But I'm wondering if there are any quality issues with either of these brands. Also, I'm wondering if running non-IBM tapes in a 3584 might raise any issues. > > Can anyone help? > > Thanks > > Mark > > > -- > Mark Ferraretto > Unix Systems Administrator > Deutsche Bank Hong Kong > w: +852 2203 6362 m: +852 9558 8032 f: +852 2203 6971 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > > This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.
