I'm also looking at buying some TL4000 units to use with Centos5 (~ RHEL5) and need to know if I can use the SAS version.
A closer look at the documentation you provided, makes me think that these are in fact re-badged IBM® System Storage TS3100/TS3200 units. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/ts3100/index.html http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/ts3200/index.html Has anyone tried these with AMANDA, or even, has anyone used a SAS autoloader with AMANDA? I'd hate to suddenly have to go to my Director and ask for extra cash for a commercial backup solution, after using AMANDA for 5 years! many thanks Jake Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:22:42AM +0200, Cyrille Bollu wrote: >> Thanks for the whole story Jon. >> >> Do you see something I should take care of before buying one of these 2 >> tape library? >> >> Here are some documentation about these: >> >> http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pvaul_tl2000?c=uk&cs=RC1077915&s=pub&~tab=specstab >> http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pvaul_tl4000?c=uk&cs=RC1077915&s=pub&~tab=specstab >> http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/stor%2Dsys/tl2k4k/en/ug/ug_en.pdf >> > > One is twice the size of the other (drive and tape capacity and price :), > so I wouldn't have thought they would be considered for the same purchase. > > In the 2003 survey only one library/drive out of forty one > was a Dell. Don't know if the more recent survey listed makes. > > I've not used Dell tape equipment. I've heard neither bad comment, > nor strong endorsement for it. Maybe others will offer opinions. > > When I attempted to buy a used Dell LTO library from eBay, > it was apparent that it would be tough to get a great deal. > Too many people wanted the same items so the prices were > not as low as I was willing to bid. Could indicate quality > is high or demand is high for other reasons. > > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > JG Computing > 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 > Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Anybody-having-experience-with-Dell-LT2000-or-LT4000-tape-changer--tf4193132.html#a12778471 Sent from the Amanda - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
