On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 at 11:41am, Toomas Aas wrote > Fabricio Luiz Machado wrote: > > > Some of my DDS-4 tapes are bad (I/O error). > > So... i´m thinking if these tapes are trustworthy... :-/ > > Are there another better solution, that I can trust more than DDS-4 ? > > Maybe DLT ?
I can second the comments recommending AIT. I have both AIT-1 and AIT-3 drives and both have been highly reliable. I'm looking at upgrading capacity (see below), and my vendor also spoke very highly of AIT. > Many people say DLT is better than DDS, but I personally have had some > very bad experiences with DLT *drives*, so I've ditched that technology > and never want to touch it again. Using LTO has been nothing but joy > these past 2 years. As long as we're talking drives and media (and I'm in the market), does anyone have any experience with S-AIT? According to my vendor, it has the same smart compresser as AIT and a capacity of 500GB/tape (vs. 400GB for LTO-3). LTO-3 looks like it may be the winner on price, but if there's a good reason to go S-AIT, I'm not averse to doing so. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University