Yes. They've been out for about 5 months. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/21429.wss
Austin On 9/13/07, Brad Hillebrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, so the LTO-4 drives have a hardware encryption option? How long have > these been out? > > > On 9/12/07, Austin Murphy < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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
