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
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Collie, Michael wrote:
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.
Okay, so at the risk of alternately causing peals of laughter and outbursts of agony and woe, may I ask if _anyone_ has seen a real live shipping SuperDLT drive yet? Is that ever going to become real? And more importantly, should I just bail on that idea and fill out the last two slots in my ATL P1000 (er, Sun L1000 :-) with DLT7K's and be done with it?
Sigh.
I suppose I should STFW and see if there's any news out there, but if one of you toaster admins is successfully running a SuperDLT drive and has any feedback, I'm interested in hearing your experiences.
Cheers,
-- Chris
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