At various jobs I ran the STK L700 (either as such or as OEM from HP or Sun 
before Sun bought them).   The last couple of years of the HP OEM here it was 
having many issues but it was also very old by that point.

We replaced it with the Quantum i6000 last year and have had almost no issues 
with the robot itself.   (We have had issues with the cleaning tapes (LTO5) 
report "failed memory chips" on occasion but that hasn't really affected 
operations.   Tomorrow we're doing firmware updates to try to resolve those.)

Back when I used Qualstar (nearly 10 years ago) we had frequent issues with 
very new robots.  It finally turned out that there was a rubber bushing at the 
base of robot arm/hand that had broken and the operators knew it but never 
bothered to communicate it to Admins.   Once we found out Qualstar fixed it 
rapidly and we never had another issue while I was there.





-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Justin 
Piszcz
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 7:03 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Robot inquiry/poll/how well does your robot/s work?

Hello,

I was curious how have people's experiences been with the various robot
vendors?
A thread usually comes up every so often on this mailing list and I was
curious what people's thoughts are?

The usual suspects:

ADIC
Dell ..(?)
HP
IBM
Spectra Logic
STK/Sun/Oracle
Qualstar
Quantum

Am I missing any other types that are current in production and still being
manufactured?


Justin.

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