On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 at 6:48pm, Eugen Leitl wrote > I'm looking at DLT for a successor (40/80 GB DLTVS from IBM, or a PV > 110T 80/160 GB DLT VS160 from Dell. > > Is DLT a sensible choice at this day and age? Any caveats with above > drives, if any? Sorry for the dumb questions, but I have only very > limited experience with tape backups.
If I were looking these days, I'd look hard at LTO or LTO2. I don't know what the cost is vs. DLT, but LTO has some nice features (like a hardware compression algorithm that actually recognizes incompressible data and doesn't try to compress it (and waste tape)). -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
