[Networker] LTO-2 or LTO-3?

Hi,

We're thinking to upgrade to LTO-2 or LTO-3 drives. We're currentlyusing LTO-1 drives (Seagate) on an STK L80. Does anyone have any adviceon this issue? We're mostly looking for higher capacity. We'd be runningLegato 7.x on a Dell poweredge 6650 storage node, running RedHat Linux,to manage the library with Solaris running on the primary server. We'dbe using LSI HBA LVD/SE cards (dual channel cards with 320 MBps perchannel), which I would think would be more than fast enough.

Any bad experiences you'd care to share? Any particular vendor like IBMversus HP you prefer? Howe about the media?

We'd most likely purchase Fugi and/or Maxell tapes. We've had problemsin the past with off-brand LTO-1 media.

Obviously, LTO-3 media will be more expensive, and we could not write toour older gen 1 media (read-only), whereas with LTO-2 we could read andwrite to our older media, but LTO-3 will write much faster and havehigher capacity. Not sure how long LTO-3 has been around, but the Legatocompatibility guide shows our L80 as supporting either the IBM or HPLTO-2 or LTO-3 drives, so I guess LTO-3 is fully supported under Legato 7.x


Thanks.

George

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