> Guy Smith Wrote: > > We recently suffered a serious outage caused in part by slow tape drives > (currently employing DAT 1504s and 7980XCs). > > I'm interested in comparing tape speeds for HP and third party devices > (plugs welcome if backed with glossy propaganda, specs and price lists > sent to the address below). Reliability is a must, so anyone with > horror stories please chime in. > > Aside from the HP devices, and the StorTek cartidge drives, I'm not > aware of faster alternatives. Any leads are appreciated. I've been playing with DLT drives. These were originally DEC OEM drives although I now understand they have been sold to Quantum. The specs are for 20gig per cartridge at 2:1 compression with a max speed of 9gig per hour. Most of the applications I have tried have been more along the lines of 6-7 gig an hour. I hooked one of these to a 967, configured it as a DAT drive, and was able to do turbostore and restore without any difficulties. Reliability has been excellent. I got mine from Oakland Resources (810) 799-3022 ask for Gordon or Mike. I'm have no relation to these guys other than as a satisfied customer. Also, I've heard the next generation is out that holds twice as much data and is slightly faster. Only downside seems to be the cartridges are in the ~~$40 range. Jim Knight -- ===================================================================== M-Net -- America's First Public Access Unix System Now running BSD/386 Version 1.1 (313) 996-4644 (14400-8N1) -or- telnet m-net.arbornet.org [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]