At 10:36 PM 8/2/2006, Allen S. Rout wrote:

Hi, all.

I'm looking into what choices folks have made for their tape drives,
and why they picked what they did.

We've been using LTO1 and LTO2 and have recently added LTO3.  We've
been happy with the LTO1 and 2.  Too early to tell on LTO3 yet.  We
went with LTO over 359x because of cost.  LTO is much cheaper.  In
the past, we've used DLT (many versions up to DLT8000).  Had tons of
problems with DLT in a TSM environment.  Will never go there
again.  I haven't heard of problems with SDLT, but I'm still raw and
saw no reason to go back to helical technology.  IMHO, the two
technologies deliver similar price-performance, but LTO seems to be
winning market-share and there are more vendors playing in the LTO field.

..Paul



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