Good Morning,
I can tell you about the hardware itself.
We have two T950s in use now. Purchased one in 2008 the other was purchased in 
January.
Both are LTO-4 with 10 drives.
The hardware is rock solid. We have not had to place a call on either.
We have 24/7 maintenance now but are considering reducing it to 9X5.

As far as the drives... No read or write errors in 2 years.
We loaded up 10 cleaning tapes 2 years ago and the drives have been cleaned 9 
times each.

We don't plan on using partitioning at this time but we'll see how that plays 
out in the future.

The terapacks are physically durable but we don't remove them from the library.


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Steven Harris
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 1:22 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: T950 Library experiences

Hi All

I'm looking at a Spectralogic T950 tape library instead of another Sun
one to replace our aging Sun L700s

Has anyone good or bad stories to tell about this?  How does the
user-replaceable spares offering work in practice? Are the tetrapaks
robust or do they break easily?

Is configuration and partitioning simple and straightforward?

Thanks

Steve

Steven Harris
TSM Admin
Paraparaumu, New Zealand