We just purchased, but haven't used yet, a Dell PowerVault 124T - comes with a single LTO4 drive and 16 slots. Unfortunately, we asked for 20 tapes, and they sent 20 LTO3 tapes, which I missed on the quote. Price was good, but I don't have an opinion one way or the other yet..
I've used, and been a big fan of, the Spectralogic brand. Good stuff. Not cheap, but not budget busting either. We're mothballing a T50 that's given us good service with two LTO3 drives and 7 cartridges of 5 slots each, with room for 3 more cartridges. The only reason we're mothballing the T50 is to preserve our ability to extract the data in the TSM system - we're shutting that whole system down and putting it in our vault, and implementing Ultrabac, as soon as the server for it arrives and we get a full backup cycle done. Kurt On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:32, Lewin, Greg <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m looking into purchasing a new tape backup device for backing up some > file servers. > > I currently have a 8 slot Quantum Autoloader LTO-2. I’m considering an > LTO-4 similar device. Any specific manufacturer better than the others? > > All my storage is locally attached no NAS or SAN involved. Thanks in > advance. > > > > Greg > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
