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>Hey, even Sony's AIT site doesn't say anything about AIT-4 except as
>being something on the roadmap.  AFAIK, AIT-4 isn't even close to being
>available yet.  Are you sure you're not getting confused with Sony's
>S-AIT half-inch format (500GB native/cart)?
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You're right.  www.aittape.com doesn't have AIT-4 (yet).  Spectra 
Logic's site has references to AIT-4 being available in 2004.  Maybe I 
heard that it was S-AIT having more capacity than current LTO.  I seem 
to remember a co-worker stopped by my desk last week, to tease me about 
how LTO-1 was so far off the back compared to what else is out there, 
and he said that AIT has passed up LTO. 


>I ended up going with an ADIC Scalar 10K w/LTO-1.  ADIC use IBM drives,
>which I've always found to be of the highest quality, performance, and
>reliability (well worth the extra cost).  We've been hammering our
>drives nearly 24x7 for the past seven or eight months without problems.
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How many drives do you have, and how many run 24x7??  I'm curious about 
how you are managing a data load that requires that much backup operation?
If you are able and can share this kind of information, on the list, or 
offline, I'm interested.

-Jon