[plug] Exabyte vs DLT

[Garth Atkinson]

David Griffiths wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
If you are prepared to sacrifice backwards compatibility, then you cant
beat the onstream50 (50 Gigs compressed/25 native) tape unit for price
and the performance is pretty handy.

And they mention linux on their web page :)

See http://www.onstream.com for more.

Garth