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.