[aklug] Re: Any Interest in a Fibre Tape Library?

On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Arthur Corliss wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Mike Tibor wrote:
>
>> This is much cooler than a 3584.
>>
>> You know you want it. Give in.
>
> Let me guess: you either get a commission on the sale or the money goes
> towards your capital budget, right? ;-)

Close. It goes to our beer budget. :-) Actually I just don't want to
see us trash it like we did the old LTO-1 library we had when you were
over here. (Just a hint to anyone else who may have any amount of
interest--I'm sure we'd take less than $5k. Probably a *lot* less.)

> BTW: I'm not on the bleeding edge
> like you, but I am on LTO-3. This unit would be a step down for me.

Ahh, but how many drives do you have? With this baby you'd have a full 12
drives with which to shuffle your data around. You'd be the envy of
Government Hill. As you walk the halls of the bunker, you'd notice
the frantic whispers of your co-workers: "Oh wow--that was Arthur! Did
you hear? He's the guy that has that powerful beast of a tape library,
with twelve drives! TWELVE!!" Yes, you would acquire a cool factor never
previously attainable.

> Speaking of LTO-4: did they maintain backward compatibility with the older
> cartridges on that drive? I seem to recall hearing some rumors that they
> were going to make a break...

It's read/write compatible with -3, read only with -2, and it won't work
with LTO-1 tapes at all.

Did I mention I'd even through in a bunch of LTO-1 tapes for free?

:-)
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Received on Tue Mar 1 14:27:40 2011