On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
> After attending the seminar on Enterprise Backup and Recovery yesterday,
> with W. Curtis Preston, I'm now very interested in AIT.
It certainly seems to have some advantages. Compact form factor, high
capacity, that nifty flash ROM chip, and the tape take-up spool is in the
cartridge (unlike DLT, which has the take-up spool in the drive itself, making
removal of tapes from a failed/stuck drive difficult). But again, theory and
practice are often worlds apart...
One thing that bothers me is that Sony seems really hesitant to sell you a
cleaning cartridge for the drives. Yeah, yeah, I've read the claims that it
doesn't need one. Bull. Unless you're operating in a clean room, you are
going to have contaminates getting into the drive. Over time, they're going
to build up on the head and start impacting performance. Eventually, it
*will* happen. I want to be able to clean the drive when it does.
Anyone on this list have any real world experience with AIT? I haven't
dealt with them very much. Had a couple stuck tapes (wouldn't eject), but we
got them out without too much trouble, and they have been fine since.
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Karl J. Runge wrote:
> If you know off the top of your head, what is the rough (i.e. within a
> factor of 2) price range for these 40-50GB tape drives?
I think our prices are about $4400 for a 40GB native DLT4 drive, and about
$3500 for a 50GB native AIT2 drive. Call for exact pricing (I have to say
that). Media isn't cheap -- between $75 to $100 per tape, with discounts for
multi-pack purchases.
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