* Patrick M. Hausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:42:33AM +0100)
> I just compared uncompressed capacity. Tandberg's SLR100 gives 50 GB
> uncompressed, IBM's Ultrium 100 GB uncompressed.
> Unfortunately our customer with the highes capacity needs stores
> precompressed data of several GB per month and wants them all
> available on disk. So we need to plan for full dumps of 100 GB
> and maybe even more. That's why I'd prefer a tape solution that
> gets 200 GB of data on a tape.
Either that, or partition your disks in 100G partitions, and spread his
data over multiple partitions, with symlinks he won't even know it.
BTW,
note that HP also sells ultrium tapes, which are exactly the same (except
the tape box sais HP iso IBM) b8ut sell at 10-20% cheaper than the IBM
tapes .. go figure ...
> "Quantum Super DLT 220N" with a quoted capacity of 220 GB (that's almost
> certainly compressed, so it may have 110 GB uncompressed).
> Unfortunately the link to Quantum's website doesn't reveal _any_
> information on that product. Is it vaporware?
Well, with LTO being 100 DLT has to beat that ..
It's probably going to be there ``soon''
> "Ampex DST 312" with a quoted capacity of 330 GB - anyone used
> these? They're helical scan technology which makes me feel a
> lot less comfortable than with Tandberg or IBM ...
Never heard of those .
Of course, wait another year and you can buy Super DLT tapes that store
500G uncompressed and 1 T compressed ...
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