We use over 20 Magstar 3590 and 4 Magstar 3570 drives in our environment
with somewhere around 20,000 cartridges. This environment was setup when the
3590 drive first came out and in all this time I can not remember a failure
due to a media error. Yes the drives need maintenance and do have failures
but much fewer then our 8 mm and DLT environments. The only tape failures we
have had are the type that comes from drop kicking the cartridges across the
data center (we try not to do this :=).

Thank You,

Stefan Dusedau
infoWorks
A Viacom technology service
(212)258-6739
stefan.dusedau AT viacom DOT com <mailto:stefan.dusedau AT viacom DOT com>


                -----Original Message-----
                From:   GSHEPPAR@CUUKMAIL [mailto:guy_sheppard AT UK.CU DOT COM]
                Sent:   Friday, February 26, 1999 10:02 AM
                To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
                Subject:        Why is MagStar so good

                To:         I1017261@IBMMAIL   IBMMAIL -I1017261
*ibmmail.I1017261
                Hi Y'all,

                Can someone please explain why MagStar(3570) is a premium
tape technology. Why
                should I use it over DLT ? I'm not after technical reasons
but real business
                benefits of this technology.

                Thanks.