You are right about that, but remember what the cost is the day you can't 
restore a tape.
Also remember that the cost for maintenance is the same per drive.
A 9840, 9940 or 3590 drive will run almost 24 hours a day 7 days a week 
without any problem at all for many years.

I would like to see a LTO drive after on year in thins kind of enviroment.

I had to change tapedrives just when the 9940 came out (before LTO) and I 
had to count every USD (or to be correct DKK) but I found out that 9940 
would cost us less USD over 3-5 years then DLT. And I think one 9940 cost 
around 5 times as much as a good LTO drive at that time. But counting 
everything except cost of failing restore showed that 9940 would cost us 
much less (around 30-40%)

And drives like 9840, 9940 and 3590 makes me sleep better.

LTO is much better then DLT, and LTO is a good media, but it can't be 
compared to 9940, 9940 and 3590.
It's a total different class of tape-drives.

/johnny

At 11:17 13-06-2002 -0700, Fabbro, Andrew P wrote:
> >Woww. Downgrading from 9840 to LTO that is something.
> >If I was you I would look into 9940 and not LTO. LTO is not even close to
> >STK9840, STK9940 and IBM 3590
>
>That's true...it's only 1/3 of the cost ;)
>
>
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