fyi. 
We run STK 9940A on the SAN with a HP-UX 11.x Veritas Netbackup Media
server. 
However! HP do not yet support STK9940 native so we have to run the STK9940A
with 9840 emulation.
The consequence is that we cannot run at the latest firmware of the tape
drives.. and we if we 
upgrade to 9940B we will not be able to gain advantage of the performance
since we will still have 
to run as 9840 emulation. 

There is also the potential configuration difficulty in the case of a robot
with both 9840 native and 9940 drives running as 9840 emulation.

So... if you have a HP-UX system try to exert pressure..sorry encourage.. HP
to support STK9940 native before purchase !
rgds martyn  

-----Original Message-----
From: Jack L. Forester [mailto:jack.l.forester AT lmco DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 1:48 PM
To: nbu-list
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Media Types


We're using STK 9940A drives here.  I regularly get 36MB/sec on some of
my backups hand have some tapes that have over 600GB on them.  I just
got 2 9940B drives installed for evaluation purposes.  I can't wait to
test drive them. :)

On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 17:08, Quarantine wrote:
> StorageTek 9840/9940.  Still don't think there's anything faster out
> there.
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl.Rossing AT Federated DOT CA [mailto:Karl.Rossing AT Federated DOT 
> CA] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 5:01 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> 
> I'm looking into a new tape library. I've done a media analysis of 
> Mammoth, Mammoth2, SDLT, SDLT320, LTO and LTO2.
> 
> So far LTO2 is winning out on Cost/GB and write speed(reliability will
> be 
> a question for another day).
> 
> I'm wondering if there are other media types that i should consider?
> 
> Thanks,
> Karl
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