We have a Spectralogic T50 as well as a T50e library. They seem pretty solid, though it's annoying that they changed the tape load loading interface between these two models. I believe we flash power on the T50 once every month or so when an NDMP backup hangs and leaves things in a funny state. We the T50 hooked up directly to our NetApp whereas the other T50e is directly attached to our backup server. We're not sure if we're having to flash power of T50 more than T50e because of the direct attached NDMP backups, or because of differences between the models, but at first glance it does seem like we're having to babysit the T50 more than the other. Personally I like the physical interface to load / unload tapes on the T50 more than T50e, but both work.
We've used both Spectralogic certified media (Which comes in nice spiffy magazines that don't fit in these libraries) and costs extra (though has lifetime warranty) and plain Sony LTO4 tapes with custom barcodes and both have worked fine (though we've noticed the 2 libraries read the barcodes slightly differently so CommVault doesn't realize that some tapes are already in use in the other library. Sigh). We've worked with Spectralogic for a number of years and their support has been pretty good. We're pretty happy with them and would buy more if we needed them. -Matt On Jul 13, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Jeff Davis wrote: > Anyone have good or bad experience with a spectra logic t50 tape > library? > I'm looking at one with a couple of IBM LTO4 drives and fiber channel. > > Thanks for any input! > > -Jeff > _______________________________________________ --- Matthew J. H. Baya System Administrator, Mouse Genome Informatics The Jackson Lab, 600 Main Street, Bar Harbor, ME 04609-1500 Phone: (207) 288-6274 Fax: 207-288-6132 [email protected] _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
