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Re: [Veritas-bu] Is anyone using a HP MSL 8096 tape library?

2009-01-27 05:00:17
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Is anyone using a HP MSL 8096 tape library?
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:39:12 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, sql_noob wrote:

>
> we'll see what happens
>
> if we lock in 8 years of support then the TS 3310 is pretty much the same 
> price as the HP robot. At 3 years, HP is cheaper.
>
> i've read a lot of good things about IBM and Sun but not too much about HP 
> tape robots and was wondering if anyone used it. waiting for pricing to come 
> back on a SL500 and Sun's quarterly financials come out tommorow after the 
> market close.
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Never had any issues with the small MSL6XXX series robots but the ESL9595 
robots were pretty much nothing but problems all around (older) -- the 
SL500s are like golden eggs IMO in comparison, it is easy to expand when 
needed and they're fairly reliable.

Justin.
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