George

Randy Doering wrote:

George, Isn't the Quantum I500 now a rebranded ADIC I500? Or is it not? I don't know.

Is the ADIC listed in compatibility guide?

Randy

----- Original Message ----- From: "George Sinclair" <George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV>

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Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 5:37 PM

Subject: [Networker] Using tape libraries not listed in Legato's compatibility guide?

Hi,

How important is it that a tape library be listed in Legato's hardware compatibility guide?

I was looking at a Quantum I500 series library with LTO-3, but it's not listed in this document, but, of course, LTO-3 is largely supported. Obviously, Legato can't test everything, but it is comforting to know you have something that they have officially sanctioned. Thing is, though, that a lot of the libraries listed are now EOL. Seems a lot of newer stuff is out there now but may not be on the list.

I like the concept of the stackable libraries since they allow you to add on and are rack mountable, but the one thing that can burn you is that if the manufacturer EOLs the product - never mind the fact that they may support it for several more years after that - you can't buy another chassis. And because you can't purchase another chassis, you can't add any more drives unless your existing chassis can take more. Seems many of the smaller ones will only take 2 drives each, so there's a good chance you'll already be maxed out, so I like the I500 since you add in 9U increments; it scales to larger increments, so if we get the base chassis (2 drives, 36 slots), we can also buy a 9U add-on that can support another 4 drives and up to 92 more slots. So, if the product is later EOL, we can still add 4 more drives. The Quantum PX502 and some of the other models only allow 2 drives max per chassis, so you'd have to buy a lot of empty chassis upfront to be be covered.

George

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