On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 at 2:38pm, George Kelbley wrote > I'm looking into upgrading my tape hardware, and while a I know lots of > sales types will give me lots of info, I was wondering what folks are > using for amanda. > > Currently using an OverlandData LoaderExpress, 1 DLT8 drive, 10 tape > library. We get almost 2:1 compression using software, but I'm starting > to get a couple of large files systems which consistantly need a tape > "just for them", so I end up using more and more tapes. > > My entire load is about a terabyte, but I have new file server coming on > line, rsn, which will be a terabyte all by itself. > > So any users of LTO, Super DLT, AIT? > > My amanda server is a Dell Workstation, Xeon 2GHz, 1 GB of memory and > lots of scsi controllers and disks..
A number of groups here (Duke, I mean) have done evaluations and settled upon AIT. The price is good, the data rates and media sizes are good, and Sony has a long roadmap for the technology (and Sony probably won't be going away any time soon). I've got an Overland Library Pro with 1 AIT3 and 19 tape slots, which I like very much. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
