Re: Which Tape Drive?

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

4MM DAT
--much much slower
--much much less capacity
++cheaper tapes

What tape do you have now?

My preference would be LTO.  I'd also shoot toward getting a drive
that will hold a complete system backup on one tape.  How much DASD
are you looking at?

Perhaps you can get an LTO4 or even LTO3 drive

Charles


On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Jerry C. Adams <midrange@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Getting back to our Power 7 proposal, an LTO5 and 4MM have been proposed as
> alternatives.  I see LTO mentioned all of the time in the list, but the cost
> of the 4MM is about $2k less.  So what would be the downside/advantage of
> going to the cheaper 4MM?
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