Hi Tim,

I have not had the chance to test the 3570 yet, but others on the
list have and they are very satisfied with the performance/reliability
of the drive.
The DLT7000 on the other hand I have tested last year and with
using the Unix Tar utility backed up a lot of files and when trying
to restore it would get stuck at a certain point and not be able
to recover past that point - not good if you consider the size of
data going to this drive! I have recently heard that there is some
problems with the hardware running a bit hot.
I've used the DLT4000 without any problems to a large extent.

Hope this helps, and I'm sure others on the list will confirm
my views regarding the DLT7000 (Maybe by now it has been
sorted out).

Regards

Christo Heuer
Johannesburg
South Africa
Christoh AT absa.co DOT za

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at throwing some additional hardware at our ADSM server.
> We're currently using a 3494 with 2 3590 tape drives and have been very
> happy with the performance and reliability.  However, my management
> won't go for another 3494 frame with additional 3590's because of the
> cost.  This leaves me with DLT and 3570 technology as options.  Anybody
> out there in ADSM land using DLT7000 drives  ??  If so,   have you been
> happy with the reliability, performance, etc.  Any gotchas I need to
> watch out for ??
>
> Thanks...
> Tim Pittson
> >tpittson AT himail.hcc DOT com