Re: LTO and 3590

2001-05-31 Thread Prather, Wanda
12:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LTO and 3590 David, Lisa is exactly right! We decided to save some money and go with LTO, but research shows that the 3590 would have been MUCH better. Don't get me wrong - the LTO technology outperforms even the new Super DLT - and blows the o

Re: LTO and 3590

2001-05-31 Thread Cook, Dwight E
The 3590's are the better drives... (how many LTO drives do you see in MVS environments ?) and especially if you have the E drives ! We are still running on 5 year old B1A's (have about 40 or 50 of them around...) the tsm environments take in a total of 2 TB nightly (on average) In 5 years (best I

Re: LTO and 3590

2001-05-31 Thread Caffey, Jeff L.
: Lisa Cabanas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 10:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: LTO and 3590 David- For what it's worth, we just went through an eval of which to expand to and decided to go with the Cadillac-- the 3590. For thruput, it will be

Re: LTO and 3590

2001-05-31 Thread Lisa Cabanas
David- For what it's worth, we just went through an eval of which to expand to and decided to go with the Cadillac-- the 3590. For thruput, it will beat LTO hands down, due to the stopping and starting technology on the drives. We archive Oracle data thru an SP switch, and we get rates of 40MB/