I'll echo Paul's comments with one additional: SDLT is not helical scan, AIT and SAIT are. SDLT uses serial serpentine as well, but their basic technology is different. LTO3 wins the day from a market share standpoint, though the newest SDLT have higher capacity at a lower cost (when you're getting killed in the market, this is what you do...).
I would not even consider AIT or SAIT for TSM. TSM does too much work on tapes (compared to other products) for helical scan sanding! Kelly J. Lipp VP Manufacturing & CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Tape Drive Choices: What, and why? At 10:36 PM 8/2/2006, Allen S. Rout wrote: >Hi, all. > >I'm looking into what choices folks have made for their tape drives, >and why they picked what they did. We've been using LTO1 and LTO2 and have recently added LTO3. We've been happy with the LTO1 and 2. Too early to tell on LTO3 yet. We went with LTO over 359x because of cost. LTO is much cheaper. In the past, we've used DLT (many versions up to DLT8000). Had tons of problems with DLT in a TSM environment. Will never go there again. I haven't heard of problems with SDLT, but I'm still raw and saw no reason to go back to helical technology. IMHO, the two technologies deliver similar price-performance, but LTO seems to be winning market-share and there are more vendors playing in the LTO field. ..Paul -- Paul Zarnowski Ph: 607-255-4757 Manager, Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801 Em: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
