On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Florian Schnabel wrote:
since out Tandberg DLT VS 80 just died over the weekend and this is 3rd tape
DRIVE that failed in my company in 5 years ...
i could use suggestions for hardware to use ... preferably no more tapes ^^
We drive our DLTs hard and they die regularly. The _tapes_ however are
supremely reliable.
All I can suggest is that you buy 'em with maintenance contracts - that
way when they die it's a changeout job.
The LTO drives we have (HP Ultrium) have never failed in more than 2
years(*) and have only required cleaning twice - once was when the room
they were in had the floor taken up for reinforcing work, which raised a
_lot_ of dust, despite the rack being plastic wrapped for the duration.
(*) Both LTO units were faulty when installed due to very rough handling
in transit - never buy HP's "pre-assembled rack" solutions as they
insist on stuffing disk and tape drives into the assembly before
loading onto the delivery vehicle. Disks have been failing regularly
since delivery and we're now up to 25% replaced (several were DOA).
AB
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