Look at the cooling requirements of HP drives, apparently they caused problems
in some environments that did not have a decent air reticulation environment.

Suad
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On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:56:52AM -0600, Wu, Jie wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:56:52AM -0600, Wu, Jie wrote:
> we are trying to decide what LTO drives we should purchase: HP's or IBM's. I
> have a white paper about the "Adaptive Tape Speed" technology used on HP LTO
> drives. Basicly this technology monitors the data throughput of the drive
> and adjusts the writing speed of the drive to match the host computer. The
> paper claims that with this technology, HP LTO drives whith 16M cache is as
> effective as a drive with 45.6M cache. The paper does make a lot of sense to
> me. But can anyone who has real-life experience tell me the difference
> regarding the performance and reliability between the LTO drives from these
> two companies? Thank you.
>
> Jie