It depends on what you're doing with it. For me, DLT is the prefferred
medium - because I run a moderate number of humongous files daily to tape.
If you're using ADSM more as originally designed, for lots of small
incremental backups, the MagStar drives have much better start-stop
performance. The DLT drives are really built for data streaming.

And smaller tapes are *much* easier to reclaim! I have to wait until I'm
down below 10% utilization before running reclaim, because 10% of 97 GB is
still 9.7 GB and takes up to an hour to process.

Tom Kauffman

> -----Original Message-----
> From: GSHEPPAR@CUUKMAIL [SMTP:guy_sheppard AT UK.CU DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, February 26, 1999 10:02 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Why is MagStar so good
>
> To:         I1017261@IBMMAIL   IBMMAIL -I1017261 *ibmmail.I1017261
> Hi Y'all,
>
> Can someone please explain why MagStar(3570) is a premium tape technology.
> Why
> should I use it over DLT ? I'm not after technical reasons but real
> business
> benefits of this technology.
>
> Thanks.