On 9/12/07, Brad Hillebrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have any experiences with the Sun/StorageTek T10000 tape drive?
I don't use them, but I did some research. One gotcha that I came across was the writing speed. They can only write at either 120 MB/sec or 50 MB/sec. There is no in between. Your disk staging or virtual tape better be able to spit out the data at one of those rates or the thing will shoe-shine like crazy. LTO-4 drives are likely to be easier to feed data and a lot cheaper. I haven't compared prices with the hardware encryption options, but w/o the encryption the drive prices are something like $5k vs. $30k. Also LTO-4 native capacity is 800 GB vs 500 GB for the T10k. Both can write at 120 MB/Sec. Austin _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
