On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 at 11:02am, Mike Brodbelt wrote

> So, does anyone have any suggestions, good (or bad) experiences, or
> other advice? Reliability is obviously by far the most important
> thing... I'm also curious as to whether people favour internal or
> external drives?

I have both AIT and AIT3 drives here, and they are quite nice.  While it's 
true that AIT is a Sony standard, they have a very long roadmap for it 
(through AIT6 IIRC), and it's not like Sony is going away any time soon.

That being said, these days I may well lean towards LTO.  I've heard very 
good things about the hardware compression in LTO drives.

Regarding external vs. internal, I strongly prefer external.  Tape drives 
can get hot.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University