On Fri, 6 Jul 2001 at 10:37pm, C. Chan wrote
> In short there is no simple answer.
>
Exactly. Let me add one more thing to consider, and that is vendor
reliability. Some groups here were recently testing AIT2 vs. Mammoth2.
They liked Mammoth2, but went with AIT2 because a) it offered similar
performance, and b) from the rumblings they heard, Exabyte as a company
may be on the ropes. Exabyte took a long time to bring Mammoth to market,
and don't have much of a roadmap for the technology (or for themselves).
Sony, on the other hand, isn't going away any time soon, and has a solid
roadmap for AIT, extending, IIRC, through AIT6.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
