[plug] Exabyte vs DLT

[David Griffiths]

I will be backing up 10-15GB (full backup) once a week
(with nightly incrementals much smaller) on a linux cluster and was going
to go for an
exabyte (mammoth) for backwards compatibility with our current  exabyte
8500 tapes.

However... DLT apparently outsells exabyte by about 5 to 1 for comparable
capacities
according to one sales person I spoke to: are there good technical reasons
for this or
is it just people drifting towards a common denominator? From the specs
I've seen so far
they are faster but more expensive.

Dave









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