For what it's worth, we brought in 380 tapes with our library two years ago.
They were all Fuji tapes. We haven't had any problems with them that
couldn't be traced back to drive or drive firmware issues.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Ferraretto [mailto:mark.ferraretto AT DB DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:31 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
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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