DLT vs. LTOII

[aleks mindlin]

What kind of autoloader are you using?

[David Ruska]

For the records:

> The DLT camp has the adavantage of being
> able to still read your old DLT tapes
> while bringing you the speed and
> capacity of its newer generation drives.

It depends on your defination of "old DLT" and "newer generation" drives. The latest drive is the SDLT600, and it will not read DLT40/70/80 tapes (only SDLT 220, SDLT320, and VS160).

> I think current generation DLTs now
> gives the LTO camp serious competition
> in the speed and capacity arenas.

SDLT600 = 300GB at 36MB/s native.
Ultrium960 = 400GB at 80MB/s native.

both transfer rates (and capacities) double at 2:1 compression.

Not sure if that's serious competition or not.