On 19 mei 2010, at 18:09, Kelly Lipp wrote: > I have about 10 years of experience with Spectra libraries and we are a > reseller of them so take my comments with the appropriate grains. > > They are highly engineered libraries with tons of features. In general they > are very reliable and Spectra support is quite good. I think Nick's comments > reflect that as well. > > We have a couple of T950s in the field and they have been good to us and our > customers. I have seen their brand new library (in fact I'm going to > training tomorrow) and it is very nice. I think that's the T-Finity line. > Very similar to the T950 but updated technology. > > These guys are very committed to tape. >
This is always nice to hear. There are so very few players in the ATL market, and even fewer when it comes down to enterprise libs.... > Steve, if you need more we can take this offline. I'm actually pretty > objective when it comes to these guys. Over Sun? Take the Spectra every > time. > I'd have to disagree. I've worked with SL3000 and SL8500 libs from STK/Sun/Oracle, and I love them. The smaller ones are all ADIC/Quantum OEM, and I've never worked with those. I'd have a SL3000 over an IBM TS3500 any time.... > Kelly Lipp > Chief Technology Officer > www.storserver.com > 719-266-8777 x7105 > STORServer solves your data backup challenges. > Once and for all. > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick > Laflamme > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 5:58 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] T950 Library experiences > > On May 19, 2010, at 1:21 AM, Steven Harris wrote: > >> Hi All >> >> I'm looking at a Spectralogic T950 tape library instead of another Sun >> one to replace our aging Sun L700s >> >> Has anyone good or bad stories to tell about this? How does the >> user-replaceable spares offering work in practice? Are the tetrapaks >> robust or do they break easily? >> >> Is configuration and partitioning simple and straightforward? > > It's been a couple of years since I worked with one, but we used one as a > remote tape library locked away in a wiring closet across campus. > > We didn't do any of our own servicing, and I don't think we partitioned the > library at all, but the tetrapaks were just fine. > > We had a period when, as I recall, the library would start to experience > intermittent hangs. Shortly before I left that employer, SpectraLogic flew > someone out who determined that a good realignment would fix the problem; she > was right. (That may have been related to us physically moving the library on > our own from one wiring closet to another a couple of hundred yards away. I'm > not saying it was, but I have to wonder.) > > SpectraLogic was moving customers to SuperDAT drives to IBM LTO drives as I > moved away from that shop. That's been more than two years; I presume they're > stable on their drive choice now. > > Six months ago, when my current employer was getting ready to get off a > particular virtual tape library technology, I would have been thrilled if > we'd gone to T950s as our library type. I have good memories of the one I > used. (Instead, we simply changed virtual tape library families, but that's > for another day.) > > It's hard to beat the density of a T950. > > Good luck, > Nick -- Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind regards, Remco Post
