>> On Wed, 19 May 2010 10:16:58 -0500, "Ochs, Duane" <[email protected]> said:
> I can tell you about the hardware itself. > We have two T950s in use now. Purchased one in 2008 the other was purchased > in January. > Both are LTO-4 with 10 drives. > The hardware is rock solid. We have not had to place a call on either. > We have 24/7 maintenance now but are considering reducing it to 9X5. > As far as the drives... No read or write errors in 2 years. > We loaded up 10 cleaning tapes 2 years ago and the drives have been cleaned 9 > times each. > We don't plan on using partitioning at this time but we'll see how that plays > out in the future. > The terapacks are physically durable but we don't remove them from the > library. Great information. Can you supply a few bits of context? How many mounts a day do you have, and how utilized are your drives? (i.e. out of 240 tape-drive-hours available in a library, how many are used?) - Allen S. Rout
