On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 at 6:48pm, Eugen Leitl wrote

> I'm looking at DLT for a successor (40/80 GB DLTVS from IBM, or a PV
> 110T 80/160 GB DLT VS160 from Dell.
> 
> Is DLT a sensible choice at this day and age? Any caveats with above
> drives, if any? Sorry for the dumb questions, but I have only very
> limited experience with tape backups.

If I were looking these days, I'd look hard at LTO or LTO2.  I don't know 
what the cost is vs. DLT, but LTO has some nice features (like a hardware 
compression algorithm that actually recognizes incompressible data and 
doesn't try to compress it (and waste tape)).

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