Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> wrote: > It is hard enough to find DLT units and tapes around here, > Bryan, that I don't even want to think about getting LTO stuff. Call up your local HP VAR! You can't be the only one with enterprise requirements. In fact, lack of availability of enterprise products is a _poor_ excuse to use commodity components with much, much higher failure rates. > How easy is to get LTO units and tapes in USA and other > countries ? How open is it (meaning: how many companies make > it) ? LTO is a 3 vendor standard. LTO media is available from just about everyone. It has been the standard with the highest adoption rate the past 3-4 years -- roughly 40-50%. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)