Hi Alexander!
 
I´ve used some older Overlands together with TSM, with no greater difficulties 
than with other brands.
Also I have used a LOT of Cpq/HP MSL-series, both with SDLT and LTO, which is 
actually the Overland 2000-series and I really, really like it, especially 
equipped with LTO-drives.
The 4000-series is the same machine with a bigger housing, so in my opinion a 
great machine!
 
One concideration though is the availibility of support for the hardware, a 
very important issue you´d be wise to check out carefully before deciding. 
Sometimes the more expensive license-manufactured brands just makes more sence 
in the long run.

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        Från: Alexander Lazarevich [mailto:alazarev AT ITG.UIUC DOT EDU] 
        Skickat: on 2003-03-19 20:23 
        Till: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU 
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        Ämne: overland tape library?
        
        

        Hey, 

        Does anyone use the Overland Storage Neo 4100 or 4200 LTO-1 tape 
library 
        with TSM 5.1 server? 

        We are upgrading our tape library and our ADSM server (3.1 -> 5.1), and 
        are trying to decide what library to get. We've been looking at the IBM 
        3583-L36 Tape Library, which uses 36 LTO-1 tapes, up to 7TB compressed 
        capacity, with two LTO drives, which is gonna cost about 36K. 

        But I recently found out about Overland storage which sells a product 
        called NEO4100, with 3 LTO-1 drives, 60 tape slots, up to 12TB capacity 
        compressed, which sells for about 30K. 

        So it seems like for 6K less we can get almost twice the capacity, with 
an 
        extra drive! That extra drive would totally kick butt. But if Overland 
        hardware sucks and breaks and doesn't work well with TSM 5.1, then 
screw 
        it. 

        Any comments? 

        Thanks in advance! 

        Alex 
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                    Beckman Institute - University of Illinois 
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