Re: Tape Backup Units

[Jamie McCarthy <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ryanm@accn.org (ryanm) writes:

> Anyone here used the Exabyte Mammoth or Mammoth-LT or the HP
> SureStore DAT24?? We are looking for a 14-24GB TBU we can use and I
> would like to get something tried and true that works with
> Linux/Solaris and NT.

My company got the HP 1554, the SureStore DAT 24, built into our
VA Research box.  It has worked great and I would recommend it.
Our real-world performance ... let's see, last night on a level 0
"dump" backup we wrote 1.94 GB in 45.3 minutes (from a filesystem
with a few hundred thousand smallish files).

http://www.hp.com/tape/datasheets/dat24.html
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