I lean towards STK 9940A and 9940B drives.  We've had zero problems with
our 9940A drives in the past year, and the 9940B drives I'm evaluating 
have amazing performance.  I'm seeing 60MB/sec on some of our backups
and put nearly a terabyte of data on a 200GB cartridge.

On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 16:49, Karl.Rossing AT Federated DOT CA wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Last week i sent an email asking about which media types to look into.
> I 
> got many suggestions. Thanks for the reply.
> 
> Now i have a question about reliability of drives. For the last 5
> months 
> we have had horrible problems with our M2 library. We want to purchase
> a 
> reliable tape drive. We are leaning towards a STK library with 2-4
> tape 
> drives. I like XXX tape drives, my supervisor likes YYY drives.
> 
> How can i be confidant that the tape drives i'm buying will be
> reliable? 
> Does it really come down to support? How do you guys sleep at night
> ;)?
> 
> Thanks,
> Karl
> 
> Legend:
> xxx=lto2
> yyy=sdlt320 *reputation as being solid*
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