On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 14:07:05 +0800, victorzhang_mvscn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello list, > When we thinking about the reliability of a tape drive technology, > vendors may say how many MTBF is, how customer experience this? > For tape drivers used today(3590 any model,3592 J1A,9840,etc), how long will you ever use it to work? > For example,12 hours to backup/restore without any errors occurr. > I'd like to hear your response. > Is this figure enough to let us think if a tape drive is reliable > and an enterprise class product? I don't have failure figures at my fingertips, but yes, I would consider mainframe tape drives reliable enough to be considered an "enterprise class product". In addition, the swap feature generally allows for graceful recovery from a rare failure. -Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
