I think StorageTek 9940 is the best tape drive you can buy for money.
StorageTek 9840 and IBM 3490 are also great.

After these I would go for LTO.

We use 9940 and has been doing so since they came on the market and we have 
not had one hard tape error.

/johnny

At 11:46 06-06-2002 -0400, Paul Gimpelev wrote:
>We are in a process of upgrading our libraries and would like to change to the
>new drive type(currently using DLT VII).  We are going to pick from SDLT, LTO
>and AIT.  I would like to know if anyone had negative experiences with any of
>these.  Thanks in advance.
>
>paulg
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