Arno Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 05.09.2008 11:40, T. Horsnell wrote:
>> Arno Lehmann wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> 05.09.2008 03:24, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj AT umdnj DOT 
>>>> edu> wrote:
> ...
>>>>> John Huttley wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> To follow up, LTO drives are very fast and this can be a liability.
>>>>>> However some drives, notably those by HP and some models by Tandberg 
>>>>>> support
>>>>>> variable speed writing. Normally down to 50% of normal.
>>>>>> These are resistant to shoe shining even without spooling.
>>> I would rather say they are *more* resistant to shoe-shining - if your 
>>> drive can write up to 150 MB/s and throttle down to 80 MB/s you will 
>>> still see shoe-shining if you only get backup throughput of 50 MB/s.
>>>
>>> Arno
>> Its starting to look like slower drives may mean faster backups
>> in some cases...
> 
> Indeed... that's one of the reasons why there remain so many different 
> tape technologies - even slower ones still have their place.

FYI, I buy used DLT 7000 and use them.  Perhaps $50-70 each drive.

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