There were a couple reasoning...

1) Too 3590E's to manage @ 40/80GB for 700+ Clients 80% Intel Windows Based (@ 
180 Act/Del Retention - I know insane)
2) 3590E Drives are not capable of Fabricated loop with out a Bridge in between.
3) Still had depreciation on 3494 Libraries.

We make daily offsite copies, which is our saving grace if onsite tape goes 
bad.  So far we have moved approx 60TB of backup data using 2x3590 to 2x3592 
Drives and only had one issues with a tape sticking in the 3590 Drive.  The 
3592's for the past 2weeks have been rock solid so far...  

We are starting to swap out more 3590 to 92's tomorrow on a different backup 
server...

Happy Holidays!


-----Original Message-----
From: Joni Moyer [mailto:joni.moyer AT HIGHMARK DOT COM]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 9:38 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: 3494


Not to get off of the subject, but what made you decide on the 3592 tape
configuration?  My thoughts are, what if you lose 1 tape with 1TB of data
on it and it didn't make the offsite copy yet?  Also, have you had many
problems with the 3592's?  Thanks!
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Joni Moyer
Highmark
Storage Systems
Work:(717)302-6603
Fax:(717)302-5974
joni.moyer AT highmark DOT com
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Not sure of the price Diff, but we are in the midst of 3590 > 3592's and
the 3592's really rock.  We are seeing 169GB an hour for our 3590 - 3592
Move data's(faster from 3592 to 3592) and our Unix Data is seeing tape
sizes from 900Gb toi 1 TB.

M00022                       TAPE_APP_B-     3592TAPE       900,000.0
2.4     Filling
                              ACKUP

M00023                       TAPE_APP_B-     3592TAPE       900,000.0
3.6     Filling
                              ACKUP

M00025                       TAPE_DR_CO-     3592TAPE       900,000.0
2.5     Filling
                              PY

M00026                       TAPE_DR_CO-     3592TAPE       1,232,573
99.7       Full
                              PY                                   .7

M00027                       TAPE_BACKU-     3592TAPE       1,075,622
98.5       Full


-----Original Message-----
From: Francois Chevallier [mailto:Francois.CHEVALLIER AT CCMX DOT FR]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 9:27 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: 3494


I have a 3494 with Magstar tapes 3590  and I would like to use a 3584 with
LTO tapes . What do you think about this choice (fiability,reliability..) .

Kind regards

François Chevallier
Parc Club du Moulin à Vent
33 av G Levy
69200 - Vénissieux
tél : 04 37 90 40 56