Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote: > I use LTO1 they are in plentiful supply and the tapes are > much cheaper than DLT. i get tapes for about USD$28 each, > they hold 100GB natively the tapes are readily available > form many companies. Damn, I didn't realize LTO-1 was now that affordable. I also just looked and the drives have now dropped to under $1K. _Ignore_ my previous recommendation to go AIT-2 or VXA-2 for 100GB or so, LTO-1 is _definitely_ the solution there. Thanx for pointing out how far the tape cartridges have fallen in price. It's been a good year, maybe 18 months, since I priced LTO-1 cartridges. > IBM, HP, Sony, fuji, Imation, TDK to name a few. LTO is an > open standard. 3 drive vendors, virtually _every_ media vendor. > and is supported by every tape vendor out there. this is the > reason that prices are much better. its a more even playing > field. you are not dependent on 1 or 2 vendors for all > supplies. Exactomundo. Unless you have legacy AIT or DLT, LTO is the way to go. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)