If you are looking at Adic i500, you can look also at IBM TS3310 or Dell
PowerVault ML6000 - they all are the same, including common library/drive
firmware.
I've been using 128-slot Adic i500 for 10 months now - no major problems so
far but 3 of 4 drives (all made by IBM) were replaced. The main reason for
selecting i500 over similar SUN/StorageTek offerings was its support for
hardware partitions that allowed to consolidate our Networker and TSM
backups into one library.

Regards,
Janis Smits

> I am looking at getting a new library with 2 LTO-3 drives.  My currently
> options are a ADIC i500 (36 slot) and a StorageTek SL500 (30 slot).  I am
> looking for pros and cons on these two libraries to help me
> determine which
> direction to head in.
>

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