Is anyone using the overland tape library and if they are... how do you like 
it? 

David C. Pearson
IS Production Support Analyst
System & Network Service
Snohomish County PUD # 1
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        -----Original Message-----
        From:   bbullock [SMTP:bbullock AT MICRON DOT COM]
        Sent:   Wednesday, March 19, 2003 1:40 PM
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:        Re: overland tape library?

                Um... come on now. You can't just shoot it down without some 
explanation. Are you a VAR that gets a commission for selling a different tape 
library or do you have an actual reason for shooting down his idea?

        Ben

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Paul Bergh [mailto:pbergh AT att DOT net]
        Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:26 PM
        To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject: Re: overland tape library?


        Big    mistake!!!

        Alexander Lazarevich wrote:

        > Hey,
        >
        > Does anyone use the Overland Storage Neo 4100 or 4200 LTO-1 tape 
library
        > with TSM 5.1 server?
        >
        > We are upgrading our tape library and our ADSM server (3.1 -> 5.1), 
and
        > are trying to decide what library to get. We've been looking at the 
IBM
        > 3583-L36 Tape Library, which uses 36 LTO-1 tapes, up to 7TB compressed
        > capacity, with two LTO drives, which is gonna cost about 36K.
        >
        > But I recently found out about Overland storage which sells a product
        > called NEO4100, with 3 LTO-1 drives, 60 tape slots, up to 12TB 
capacity
        > compressed, which sells for about 30K.
        >
        > So it seems like for 6K less we can get almost twice the capacity, 
with an
        > extra drive! That extra drive would totally kick butt. But if Overland
        > hardware sucks and breaks and doesn't work well with TSM 5.1, then 
screw
        > it.
        >
        > Any comments?
        >
        > Thanks in advance!
        >
        > Alex
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        >    Alex Lazarevich | Systems Administrator | Imaging Technology Group
        >             Beckman Institute - University of Illinois
        >        alazarev AT itg.uiuc DOT edu | (217)244-1565 | www.itg.uiuc.edu
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