We are moving off of the magstar tapes to LTO .. I really despise them ..
basically due to the fact that we have 40,000 of them sitting all over the
place.  I think it depends on what kind of backups you are planning on
doing .. ie .. do you have a lot of information to backup or not .. while
the magstars are fast .. they dont hold squat compared to an LTO.

R.

> Hello everyone!
>
> The environment here is going to be changing soon... We will be moving
> off of the mainframe and onto an AIX server that will be on our SAN.
> We will have 1 STK silo for the tapes for 2 TSM servers.  Right now we
> are considering IBM's LTO or STK's 9840.  I was just wondering if
> anyone out there has had experience with either one and if so,  what
> are the pro's and con's of them?  Has anyone that has worked with LTO
> know how long it takes to recover a bad tape?  Considering that they
> are 100GB tapes, it was assumed that it would take 5 times as long as
> it does to recover a Magstar 3590(20 GB).  And also, do the tapes get
> damaged easily or is that all a matter of handling them to take them
> offsite to vaults?  Thank you!!!!
>
> Joni Moyer
> Associate Systems Programmer
> joni.moyer AT highmark DOT com
> (717)975-8338