[BBLISA] Tape drives?

[Rudie, Tony]

Make sure you set things up so that whatever is writing to the drive(s) can keep then streaming and they don't shoe-shine.  Constant shoe-shining will drastically shorten the lifespan of ANY linear scan drive (LTO, SDLT, etc) from ANY manufacturer.

 - Tony Rudié 

-----Original Message-----
From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf Of Scott R Ehrlich
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 12:53 PM
To: bblisa at bblisa.org
Subject: [BBLISA] Tape drives?

I'm pricing tape drives for high reliability.   What vendor and what type do
more people trust - Quantum or Dell, or someone else?   Also, SDLT or LTO?
Price is not so much an issue as is reliability.    I aim for rack mount, but
that isn't so important if a suitable tape drive comes along that simply hangs
off the server.

Also, what brand/manufacturer tapes have people found most reliable?

This will be for 4 dual-boot (XP and CentOS 5) systems connecting to a PowerEdge
server.    I'm awaiting details on exactly how much storage we are actually
going to be dealing with, and if the data will be static or dynamic.

Thanks.

Scott

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