We are currently running TSM 5.1.5 on Win2k with an IBM Mammoth-2 drive for offsite copypools. We have had problems with both our onsite M2 and offsite M2 drives at our disaster recovery center. IBM has replaced the drive more than a dozen times in the last two years and Exabyte has replaced countless tapes. Most recently we are experiencing a high rate of media write failures on a newly replaced drive as well as media read failures in DR testing, both using brand new 225m AME media.
Is anybody else out their running an IBM/Exabyte Mammoth-2 drive and if so what kind of results do you see? My real question is what is the most common/reliable removable tape technologies for the Intel TSM environment? We are considering switching technologies and I wanted to solicit testimonies on other technologies (DLT, LTO, SDLT,etc...). We currently copy around 135GB to 300GB offsite daily. Thanks, Colby
