Re: LTO versus 3590

[Paul Zarnowski]

At 01:32 PM 2/7/2001 +0100, Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM wrote:
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>the LTO start/stop characteristics are something to take in consideration.
>Data on a 100 GB. volume can (and will) be scattered across the tape, so
>when you are restoring a lot of data, you will see long seek times. We
>choose for 3590 over LTO for this reason.
>Kindest regards,
>Eric van Loon

Eric,
Do you know anything about AIT's start/stop characteristics?  Did you
consider AIT before making your decision to go with 3590?
..Paul