Hello Eugen,

EL> Given that the 6x tape library is only 2x the price of a vanilla DDS4
EL> DAT drive, I'm thinking about buying it. Any (positive, negative) experience
EL> with the DAT HP DDS4 Trade Ready 40x6i 120-240GB int. Autoloader thingy,
EL> under SPARC Solaris and/or x86 Linux?

We just have installed the HP drive at a client running Linux (Suse)
and it is working successfully.

The only caveat I can think of is more organisatorical: if you use a
6 tape changer it is quite easy for us lazy persons to leave the tapes
in there for a longer time. In case of a complete loss (fire or theft)
you may loose more than the last backup.
The elegance of a single tape drive is that you definitely change
tapes every (working) day.


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