Sony hasn't given up the race.  Their 500 GB native Super AIT drives
should be available this Spring:

http://storage.ziffdavis.com/article2/0,3973,903245,00.asp


Howard Martin wrote:

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:29:47 +0800, Robert Loh <robert AT SOFTSOURCE.COM DOT SG>
wrote:

I think everybody is quite confuse about drive and media, correct me if I

am

wrong

<snip>

LTO1            15MB/sec                100GB
LTO2            30MB/sec                100GB
Don't think LTO2 is backward compatible with LTO1

LT02   30MB/s (IBM LTO2 35 MB/s) to LTO2 media 200GB native
LTO2 is ultrium level 2
ultrium level 3 will do 40-80MB/s 400GB native
ultrium level 4 will do 80-160MB/s 800GB native

As what u see, SDLT and LTO are in the race to each other. Personally I am
quite happy working with SDLT320.
Cheers...
Robert

I agree about the race, but I'm (currently) backing LTO it generally comes
out earlier with the high speed devices and slightly lags in capacity.
Most importantly with 30-40 IBM LTO drives in fairly heavy use we are
seeing a lot less problems than we got with DLT7000's.

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