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One school of thought is that you're only allowed to upgrade your tape
drive every other decade.
and you're not going to VTL,
then go with the latest out there, since you'll be stuck with it for
awhile. And new has a good warranty program.
Or: Start out with the highest LTO that your old server will support (or
pay for a migration service and go newer).
Or pick one that's a little "seasoned" so that it's cheaper on the used
market and the tapes are much lower cost.
Honestly, the drive James has is so old that I really can't imagine he's
using tape to exchange data with many people.
At one time people were asking IBM to have one common tape size that was
supplied with every system for data interchange. It just wasn't feasible
with tape changing as rapidly as it does. And not many people would want
to tie up an internal slot on a Power 7 for some tape that's compatible
with a Power 3. DVD, thumb drives and communications became the defacto
exchange media.
Rob Berendt
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