At 11:44 AM 8/21/97 -0500, Gary L. Paveza, Jr. wrote:
>Our shop will be moving shortly to DLT drives (DLT4000), both on the
>two HP3000s and a HP9000.  I was wondering if anyone on the list had
>any information about these drives and/or tapes, (cost, reliability,
>storage solutions for the tapes)?  Success and disappointment stories
>are welcome.
>

Last I looked the tapes were still in the $40-$50 range a piece.  There
seemed to be drastic fluctuations in price based on availability.  We had
no reliability issues with the tapes, although we did have the occasional
problem with the tape threading leader on the older models (DLT2000).  As
for storage solutions, Engineered Data Products (I think that's right) has
some nice tape rack solutions with different types of packs for tapes
(cartridge, dat, etc).  They have a DLT pack that worked out pretty well.
Let me know if you need a dealers name and I'll send you one.

Jim
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