I'm also looking at buying some TL4000 units to use with Centos5 (~ RHEL5)
and need to know if I can use the SAS version.

A closer look at the documentation you provided, makes me think that these
are in fact re-badged  IBM® System Storage TS3100/TS3200 units. 

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/ts3100/index.html
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/ts3200/index.html

Has anyone tried these with AMANDA, or even, has anyone used a SAS
autoloader with AMANDA?

I'd hate to suddenly have to go to my Director and ask for extra cash for a
commercial backup solution, after using AMANDA for 5 years!

many thanks

Jake


Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:22:42AM +0200, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
>> Thanks for the whole story Jon.
>> 
>> Do you see something I should take care of before buying one of these 2 
>> tape library?
>> 
>> Here are some documentation about these:
>> 
>> http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pvaul_tl2000?c=uk&cs=RC1077915&s=pub&~tab=specstab
>> http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pvaul_tl4000?c=uk&cs=RC1077915&s=pub&~tab=specstab
>> http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/stor%2Dsys/tl2k4k/en/ug/ug_en.pdf
>> 
> 
> One is twice the size of the other (drive and tape capacity and price :),
> so I wouldn't have thought they would be considered for the same purchase.
> 
> In the 2003 survey only one library/drive out of forty one
> was a Dell.  Don't know if the more recent survey listed makes.
> 
> I've not used Dell tape equipment.  I've heard neither bad comment,
> nor strong endorsement for it.  Maybe others will offer opinions.
> 
> When I attempted to buy a used Dell LTO library from eBay,
> it was apparent that it would be tough to get a great deal.
> Too many people wanted the same items so the prices were
> not as low as I was willing to bid.  Could indicate quality
> is high or demand is high for other reasons.
> 
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