A lot of choices out there, and quite frankly, and lot of GOOD choices.
The only library I've ever had major issues with is a breece hill DLTIII
library. Most of the issues dealt with the 3rd party hardware vendor
(Kodak), and not Breece Hill itself. As someone already mentioned,
service contracts are more often the sore point with these machines.
In our case, the last 2 we bought were from Spectralogic, using LTO-3
drives. We also ordered what they call assisted self maintenance, which
is basically a spare parts kit. When a drive goes down, we have one
on-site, and simply replace it, call the 1-800 number, and then they
ship another tape drive. When that one comes in, it has a shipping
label that we stick on the bad drive, and ship it back to the company.
THIS WORKS WELL FOR US. Not saying it is for everyone, as it can be a
bit pricey. However, when a drive dies, it's very nice to have about
20 minutes of downtime for that one drive, instead of 4 hour, or next
day replacement.
David M. Browning Jr.
IT Project Coordinator Enterprise Backups and Help Desk
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Subject: [Networker] Tape Library Recomendations
Our backup demands are out growing the usefullness of our HP 1/8
Autoloader and we are starting to look at libraries with multiple
drives. I am interested in tape consolidation so I need 3 drives, but
don't need a ton of slots. Maybe 20-30 roughly. Any suggestions?
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