Moshe,
The LTO technology promises performance of up to 30Mb/s with 2:1 compression. This performance far exceeds DLTs, SDLT, ATI-2 and 9840s. The form factor for LTO (Ultrium) is different for today's tape drives.
It may be some time before library vendors integrate the LTO technology into their products. NetApp support for LTO is slated for 4th quarter of 2001.
---Original Message----- From: ryanb [mailto:ryanb@enteract.com] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 12:58 PM To: Moshe Linzer Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: LTO support?
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:17:57PM +0200, Moshe Linzer wrote:
Does anyone know when LTO will be supported on the filer? I have two 760's, and we are shopping around for a backup library. I am hesitant to go with LTO at this point, but management likes the numbers. Can anyone share experience or opinions on LTO drives or libraries?
Most LTO equipment is identical to DLT equipment, only with a different tape drive. In this respect, the LTO drives will perform identically, or so I'd like to think. ;) Please let me know if I'm wrong here.
- ryan