Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] SDLT 600 vs LTO3 ?!

2006-08-08 09:23:38
Subject: [Veritas-bu] SDLT 600 vs LTO3 ?!
From: austin.murphy at gmail.com (Austin Murphy)
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 09:23:38 -0400
On 8/7/06, Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) <JMARTI05 at intersil.com> wrote:
> Correction - (per Quantum) DLT-S4 is not backwards compatible (read) w/
> SDLT 220s.
>
> That's the only reason SDLT600 is still on the table.

Ok. I was confused.

Pg 23 in this product guide:
http://www.quantum.com/pdf/ProductGuide.pdf

...shows that DLT-S4 drives can read "Super DLTtape I" tapes, but only
if they were written with a SDLT 320 drive, NOT an SDLT 220 drive.

I would agree that LTO3 is all-around-better than SDLT600.

Austin