OfficeMax is in the midst of converting over to STK's T9940B drives,
connecting them via 2Gbit Fiber Channel through EMC (read McData) edge
switches to a pair of Sun E6500 media servers.  Although we are still
struggling with the Emulex HBA's performing at much less than expected
throughput we have already observed these T9940B drives running at speeds
over 45Mbytes/sec.  In addition, the 3.3TByte production SAP database now
takes up 4 (yes, you are reading that correctly, four!) T9940 cartridges.
That is to say, we have data cartridges with more than 1 Terrabyte of data
on them!

Of course these T9940B drives do not come cheaply :-)

 PaulW

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Paul Winkeler, IT Consultant
216-471-3795


-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Ritschel [mailto:dritschel62 AT yahoo DOT com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 4:40 PM
To: Caddell, Scott; Scott Jacobson; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu;
jkennedy AT qualcomm DOT com; rob AT worman DOT org
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] SDLT vs LTO Ultrium


What about the Storagetek 9940B drives? Does anyone
have any experience with them? 


--- "Caddell, Scott" <dcaddell AT intersil DOT com> wrote:
> There were issues early on with the firmware of the
> SDLT 220, but starting with Firmware rev 35, SDLT
> has been great.
> 
> [Caddell, Scott]
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Jacobson [mailto:SJACOBSO AT novell DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 2:25 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu;
> jkennedy AT qualcomm DOT com; rob AT worman DOT org;
> dritschel62 AT yahoo DOT com
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] SDLT vs LTO Ultrium
> 
> 
> 
> Yes please tell more, we are about to evaluate the
> M2500 with SDLT 320's - anyone seen any problems?
>  
> Thanks,
> Scott J.
> 
> 
> >>> "Kennedy, Jeffrey" <jkennedy AT qualcomm DOT com>
> 12/10/02 11:32AM >>>
> I would be very interested to hear what problems
> you're referring to.  I
> was using SDLT 220 models and had no issues with at
> all.  Minus the
> occasional NBU problem of course.
> 
> In my current position the operations group just
> bought 20 SDLT 320's
> (or is it 330's?) and they love them.  There are 45
> more on order.  So
> far they've had no problems.
> 
> Can you give specifics?  I'm sure I'm not the only
> one interested.
> 
> ~JK
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Worman [ mailto:rob AT worman DOT org]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 9:12 AM
> To: Douglas Ritschel; veritas-ng
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] SDLT vs LTO Ultrium
> 
> doug you didn't hear it from me, but if you're at a
> decision point
> right now, choose LTO's.
> 
> there have been, and continue to be, really really
> unpleasant
> problems with even the latest versions of the SDLT
> firmware from 
> quantum.
> 
> for that reason alone, LTO's are the winner of SDLT
> in my opinion.
> feel free to share this with the list, but leave my
> name out of it 
> please.
> 
> HTH
> rob
> 
> 
> At 7:30 AM -0800 12/10/02, Douglas Ritschel wrote:
> >What are the advantages and disadvantages of
> getting
> >LTO Ultrium drives rather than SDLT drives?
> >
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