SUMMARY: Tape Library experiences - ADIC 24 ADIC 100 HP MSL50xx and 60xx

As promised, here is a summary fo responses to the question

>I'm setting up some 30-odd sites with TSM - probably 5.3.1 by the time we get 
>to production - on Windows 2003 Standard.  I'm at the stage of specifying >the 
>hardware that we will be using. There are two preferred suppliers, Dell and 
>HP, and we are offering our sites the choice of SDLT320 or LTO2. >LTO2 is our 
>preference, but there is a lot of existing SDLT infrastructure out there. 
>Different sites will get different libraries depending on data volume.

>Thus the choices of library are the Dell PowerVault 132T or 136T, which are 
>re-badged ADIC Scalar 24 and 100 respectively or

>the HP MSL50xx (SDLT) or 60xx (LTO2) libraries, which come in a 5RU/2drive or 
>10RU/4 drive combinations.

>Can I have your war stories, and good or bad experiences with these libraries? 
> any caveats or things to watch?  Are they reliable, and when they
>break, which bits break?  With the HP libraries, how speedy and/or reliable is 
>the elevator mechanism which is used to connect libraries together?

The responses where that the libraries perfrom much as expected with no 
unreasonable failures, after the early releases had had firmware problems 
sorted out.

The HP library pass through method was slow and failed occasionally but was 
basically reliable.

Thanks to all who responded.

Regards

Steve.





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