Charles Weber wrote:

>It's time for me to buy a new library primarily for off site and clones.
>I started in the 60 slot LTO2 range 2 months ago, but a recent instrument
>acquisition forced me to to double my required size.
>
>I'm looking at
>StorageTek L180 with LTO2
>Qualstar 5466 with SAIT (66 SAIT slots)
>Adic Scalar 100 (too small)
>            1000 (Physically size might be an issue)
>Overland Neo

We are very pleased with alll our Scalar 1000 libraries. The largest have 3
extra expansion boxes. The oldest uses DLT7000 while the newest (and
largest) uses LTO1/LTO2.

>With SAIT I get very good slot to size ratio, since it is a 500GB native
tape.
>But SAIT is newer and much less used than LTO2.
>The size I need with LTO2 will require at least 120 slots, a larger
physical area
>and a new legato library license.

You may want to consider a library with SDLT600 drives. They have 300GB
native capacity. 36MB/s uncompressed transfer rate.


greetings,

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