We have purchased Fuji media and have over 500 LTO tapes in our library.
Works just fine.

George


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Farber [mailto:rs6000 AT BTINTERNET DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:29 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Non-IBM LTO tapes in a 3584


Mark

I have a customer running a 3583 who also needed more tapes and did not want
to pay more for IBM tapes. He instead went for Sony LTO tapes. The
interesting thing is that the read/write errors always seem to be with the
IBM tapes and never with the Sony tapes.

Rgds
Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Ferraretto" <mark.ferraretto AT DB DOT COM>
To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 5:30 AM
Subject: Non-IBM LTO tapes in a 3584


> All,
>
> We're looking at purchasing extra LTO-1 tapes to go in our 3584.  To date,
we've been running IBM tapes but we've gotten cheaper prices on HP and
Imation tapes.  Both HP and Imation are priced about 30% less than the IBM
tapes.
>
> But I'm wondering if there are any quality issues with either of these
brands.  Also, I'm wondering if running non-IBM tapes in a 3584 might raise
any issues.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>
>
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