On 19 mei 2010, at 18:09, Kelly Lipp wrote:

> I have about 10 years of experience with Spectra libraries and we are a 
> reseller of them so take my comments with the appropriate grains.
> 
> They are highly engineered libraries with tons of features.  In general they 
> are very reliable and Spectra support is quite good.  I think Nick's comments 
> reflect that as well.
> 
> We have a couple of T950s in the field and they have been good to us and our 
> customers.  I have seen their brand new library (in fact I'm going to 
> training tomorrow) and it is very nice.  I think that's the T-Finity line.  
> Very similar to the T950 but updated technology.
> 
> These guys are very committed to tape.
> 

This is always nice to hear. There are so very few players in the ATL market, 
and even fewer when it comes down to enterprise libs....

> Steve, if you need more we can take this offline. I'm actually pretty 
> objective when it comes to these guys.  Over Sun?  Take the Spectra every 
> time.
> 

I'd have to disagree. I've worked with SL3000 and SL8500 libs from 
STK/Sun/Oracle, and I love them. The smaller ones are all ADIC/Quantum OEM, and 
I've never worked with those. I'd have a SL3000 over an IBM TS3500 any time....

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of Nick Laflamme
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 5:58 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] T950 Library experiences
> 
> On May 19, 2010, at 1:21 AM, Steven Harris wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> It's been a couple of years since I worked with one, but we used one as a 
> remote tape library locked away in a wiring closet across campus. 
> 
> We didn't do any of our own servicing, and I don't think we partitioned the 
> library at all, but the tetrapaks were just fine. 
> 
> We had a period when, as I recall, the library would start to experience 
> intermittent hangs. Shortly before I left that employer, SpectraLogic flew 
> someone out who determined that a good realignment would fix the problem; she 
> was right. (That may have been related to us physically moving the library on 
> our own from one wiring closet to another a couple of hundred yards away. I'm 
> not saying it was, but I have to wonder.)
> 
> SpectraLogic was moving customers to SuperDAT drives to IBM LTO drives as I 
> moved away from that shop. That's been more than two years; I presume they're 
> stable on their drive choice now. 
> 
> Six months ago, when my current employer was getting ready to get off a 
> particular virtual tape library technology, I would have been thrilled if 
> we'd gone to T950s as our library type. I have good memories of the one I 
> used. (Instead, we simply changed virtual tape library families, but that's 
> for another day.)
> 
> It's hard to beat the density of a T950.
> 
> Good luck,
> Nick

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