In a message dated: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:55:28 EDT
Benjamin Scott said:
>On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
>> DLT has the advantage of being able to contain more data per tape than any
>> other out there right now.
>
> I thought 40 GB/tape (native) was the current limit for DLT? AIT claims to
>do 50 GB/tape, native.
That is correct, I was wrong.
>> I believe AIT is Exabyte's entry into the large-capacity tape market.
>
> AIT came from Sony, not Exabyte. Sony claims it is an "open standard", but
>right now Sony is the sole source for media and drives, I believe.
And again :)
After attending the seminar on Enterprise Backup and Recovery yesterday, with
W. Curtis Preston, I'm now very interested in AIT. He highly recommends
looking into the technology, and is a big fan of it. He also seems very
interested in the VXA Ecrix technology, but stated it's still a little too
young to have much of a serious track record.
> One of the neat features of AIT is that each cartridge has a 64K flash ROM
>chip in it, allowing you (in theory) to store tape identification and
>directory information in an instantly-accessible form. Gets rid of those
>multi-hour load-and-recatalog operations. No word on how well it works in
>practice, though...
Cool, I didn't know that.
> Each technology has a website:
>
> http://www.dlttape.com
> http://www.aittape.com
>
> I'd take whatever they say with a grain of salt, since both are corporate
>mouthpieces, but they're interesting if not unbiased.
Also, since both are really going to stress the strong points of their
respective technology, you should be able to compare and contrast the two from
each site and see which technology better suits your needs.
--
Seeya,
Paul
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