On 19 mei 2010, at 18:09, Kelly Lipp wrote:
> I have about 10 years of experience with Spectra libraries and we are a
> reseller of them so take my comments with the appropriate grains.
>
> They are highly engineered libraries with tons of features. In general they
> are very reliable and Spectra support is quite good. I think Nick's comments
> reflect that as well.
>
> We have a couple of T950s in the field and they have been good to us and our
> customers. I have seen their brand new library (in fact I'm going to
> training tomorrow) and it is very nice. I think that's the T-Finity line.
> Very similar to the T950 but updated technology.
>
> These guys are very committed to tape.
>
This is always nice to hear. There are so very few players in the ATL market,
and even fewer when it comes down to enterprise libs....
> Steve, if you need more we can take this offline. I'm actually pretty
> objective when it comes to these guys. Over Sun? Take the Spectra every
> time.
>
I'd have to disagree. I've worked with SL3000 and SL8500 libs from
STK/Sun/Oracle, and I love them. The smaller ones are all ADIC/Quantum OEM, and
I've never worked with those. I'd have a SL3000 over an IBM TS3500 any time....
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of Nick Laflamme
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 5:58 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] T950 Library experiences
>
> On May 19, 2010, at 1:21 AM, Steven Harris wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> I'm looking at a Spectralogic T950 tape library instead of another Sun
>> one to replace our aging Sun L700s
>>
>> Has anyone good or bad stories to tell about this? How does the
>> user-replaceable spares offering work in practice? Are the tetrapaks
>> robust or do they break easily?
>>
>> Is configuration and partitioning simple and straightforward?
>
> It's been a couple of years since I worked with one, but we used one as a
> remote tape library locked away in a wiring closet across campus.
>
> We didn't do any of our own servicing, and I don't think we partitioned the
> library at all, but the tetrapaks were just fine.
>
> We had a period when, as I recall, the library would start to experience
> intermittent hangs. Shortly before I left that employer, SpectraLogic flew
> someone out who determined that a good realignment would fix the problem; she
> was right. (That may have been related to us physically moving the library on
> our own from one wiring closet to another a couple of hundred yards away. I'm
> not saying it was, but I have to wonder.)
>
> SpectraLogic was moving customers to SuperDAT drives to IBM LTO drives as I
> moved away from that shop. That's been more than two years; I presume they're
> stable on their drive choice now.
>
> Six months ago, when my current employer was getting ready to get off a
> particular virtual tape library technology, I would have been thrilled if
> we'd gone to T950s as our library type. I have good memories of the one I
> used. (Instead, we simply changed virtual tape library families, but that's
> for another day.)
>
> It's hard to beat the density of a T950.
>
> Good luck,
> Nick
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