This sounds real good.

The Overland Neo 4100 comes with 3 year warranty, 1 year of that with same 
day on site service. After that I'm pretty sure I can service the thing 
myself. After the 3 years is up, the maintanance contract, through 
Overland, is pretty well priced.

Thanks for the feedback,

Alex
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   Alex Lazarevich | Systems Administrator | Imaging Technology Group
            Beckman Institute - University of Illinois
       alazarev AT itg.uiuc DOT edu | (217)244-1565 | www.itg.uiuc.edu
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On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Kjell Svensson wrote:

> Hi Alexander!
>  
> I´ve used some older Overlands together with TSM, with no greater 
> difficulties than with other brands.
> Also I have used a LOT of Cpq/HP MSL-series, both with SDLT and LTO, which is 
> actually the Overland 2000-series and I really, really like it, especially 
> equipped with LTO-drives.
> The 4000-series is the same machine with a bigger housing, so in my opinion a 
> great machine!
>  
> One concideration though is the availibility of support for the hardware, a 
> very important issue you´d be wise to check out carefully before deciding. 
> Sometimes the more expensive license-manufactured brands just makes more 
> sence in the long run.
> 
>         -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- 
>         Från: Alexander Lazarevich [mailto:alazarev AT ITG.UIUC DOT EDU] 
>         Skickat: on 2003-03-19 20:23 
>         Till: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU 
>         Kopia: 
>         Ämne: overland tape library?
>       
>       
> 
>         Hey, 
> 
>         Does anyone use the Overland Storage Neo 4100 or 4200 LTO-1 tape 
> library 
>         with TSM 5.1 server? 
> 
>         We are upgrading our tape library and our ADSM server (3.1 -> 5.1), 
> and 
>         are trying to decide what library to get. We've been looking at the 
> IBM 
>         3583-L36 Tape Library, which uses 36 LTO-1 tapes, up to 7TB 
> compressed 
>         capacity, with two LTO drives, which is gonna cost about 36K. 
> 
>         But I recently found out about Overland storage which sells a product 
>         called NEO4100, with 3 LTO-1 drives, 60 tape slots, up to 12TB 
> capacity 
>         compressed, which sells for about 30K. 
> 
>         So it seems like for 6K less we can get almost twice the capacity, 
> with an 
>         extra drive! That extra drive would totally kick butt. But if 
> Overland 
>         hardware sucks and breaks and doesn't work well with TSM 5.1, then 
> screw 
>         it. 
> 
>         Any comments? 
> 
>         Thanks in advance! 
> 
>         Alex 
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>            Alex Lazarevich | Systems Administrator | Imaging Technology Group 
>                     Beckman Institute - University of Illinois 
>                alazarev AT itg.uiuc DOT edu | (217)244-1565 | 
> www.itg.uiuc.edu 
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