Kind regards,

John wrote: That is incorrect. The A3542A 003 is a new field add-on DDS3 drive.
List is
$3670.00. There is also an A3542AR, which is a remarketed version. Lose your HP
contacts and find a good Channel Partner... ;-)

To which I respond:  "Wow those are high prices.!"
I went to www.dirtcheapdrives.com to have a look at some prices, here is what I
found.

For internal devices:
An HP C1554AI DDS-3 drive for $769.
A DLT4000 for $1599.
An HP C5686A LVD/SCSI DDS-4 device for $1169
A DLT7000 for $3979
A DLT8000 for $4289
An HP C5648A DDS-3 6 cartridge autoloader for $1999

I only listed HP and Quantum equipment  here. (Remember all DLTs are made by
Quantum.)

If you are afraid of putting in such devices into the system, I went looking
for EXTERNAL devices.  The prices are a little higher.  The HP C5648A DDS-3 6
cartridge autoloader is $2089.

Of course, you can buy any of the internal equipment and place it in a SCSI
enclosure.

We have bought all sorts of stuff from them over the years.  Our HP 3000 sports
one of their autoloaders and I also replaced the internal drive, which had
died, with a new HP one that I bought at DCD.  I swapped it out myself, no
biggie.




Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP
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-----Original Message-----
From:   John Painter [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Friday, January 28, 2000 8:08 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        DDS-3 Drives

In article <[log in to unmask]>,
[log in to unmask] says...
>
>Fellow listers,
>
>After a recent rash of problems, where our backup would not fit on our
available
>DDS-2 drives, I decided to try and see if I could 'upgrade' to DDS-3 and thus
>the extra tape capacity would resolve the need of someone driving in the
middle
>of the night to mount the additional tapes  (For a variety of reasons going to
>DLT is not an option at this point).
>
>After finding out that my sales rep. had retired and after being passed around
>and waiting for a call back for a couple of days, I finally talked to human
>being today and I was informed that the only DDS-3 drives available for my
>system (a 969/220) were of the 're-marketed' variety.
>
>Does this sound right?  The DDS-3 drive 'product' has already been
discontinued?
>
>Regards
>Paul Christidis
>

Paul:

That is incorrect. The A3542A 003 is a new field add-on DDS3 drive. List is
$3670.00. There is also an A3542AR, which is a remarketed version. Lose your HP
contacts and find a good Channel Partner... ;-)

John Painter
Computer Solutions, Inc.
http://www.internetcsi.com