We are in the midst of converting from 3590 to 3592's. We purchased 22 3592's and 900 3592 Carts via our IBM reseller. According to our IBM partner 3592 tapes are available through IBM till Feb/March 04. From then on they should be available from Fuji and Imation. (The tape media developed by IBM / Fuji). http://www.fuji-magnetics.com/en/company/news/index2_html
We also have been working with our tape vendor, as he requested a 3592 cart from us to give to Imation to compare the final product with what Imation is working on. Of course we asked our IBM partner if it was ok to give our tape vendor a 3592 cart and their attitude was sure, the more manufactures the better to drive the tape cart price down. So far we have put in 12 of the 22 drives in production and are able to handle the daily backup load and do move datas from 3590's to 3592s. Our Unix backup clients are seeing 1.2TB (not kidding) per cart (we create 2 copies daily) and out Intel is seeing about 600Gb per cart. Only service call we had in the past 3 weeks is a tape stuck in the 3590's Be careful what you heard from other vendors, we've been burned by one vendor speaking of another. Regards, Charles -----Original Message----- From: Coolen, IG (Ilja) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 1:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3592 Media Availability Mike, We purchase all 3590 and in the future 3592 tapes at Imation. They have the 3592 tapes in their portfolio. As a mather of fact, IBM sells 3590/3592 and probably other types to, as an OEM product, manufactured by Imation. We have no experience on 3592. We plan to implement in Q1/04. Kind regards Ilja Coolen -----Original Message----- From: Mike Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 11:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3592 Media Availability I've been hearing varying stories from vendors regarding the availability of 3592 media. Beyond the 20 tapes available through IBM with the installation of the drive, are these tapes available through resellers now? I've seen estimates anywhere from today to March '04. I'd also be interested in hearing comments from anyone with first-hand experience using the 3592 in a production environment. Do they live up to the hype? Thanks, Mie =====DISCLAIMER================================================================= De informatie in dit e-mailbericht is vertrouwelijk en uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Wanneer u dit bericht per abuis ontvangt, verzoeken wij u contact op te nemen met de afzender per kerende e-mail. Verder verzoeken wij u in dat geval dit e-mailbericht te vernietigen en de inhoud ervan aan niemand openbaar te maken. Wij aanvaarden geen aansprakelijkheid voor onjuiste, onvolledige dan wel ontijdige overbrenging van de inhoud van een verzonden e-mailbericht, noch voor daarbij overgebrachte virussen. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. It may be read, copied and used only by the intended recipient. If you have received it in error, please contact the sender immediately by return e-mail; please delete in this case the e-mail and do not disclose its contents to any person. We don't accept liability for any errors, omissions, delays of receipt or viruses in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission.
