[Sunhelp] High Capacity Tape Drives

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Thiruvathukal [mailto:x86 at lemont.rice.iit.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 9:26 PM
> To: 'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'
> Subject: RE: [Sunhelp] High Capacity Tape Drives
> 
> On Wed, 3 May 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > > One in particular that looked good was the Compaq 50GB AIT 
> > > drive - that's
> > > 50 gigs on a single tape! More with compression turned on.
> > 
> > Uhm, no (well, I'm 95% sure, anyway).  :(  Compaq's AIT 
> drives are all
> > AIT-1, which is 25GB native, 50GB compressed.  Some of the 
> AIT-1 drives can
> > take the longer tapes, for a native capacity of 35GB.  The 
> newer AIT-2
> > drives have a higher capacity (I can't remember how big, 
> but bigger).
> 
> It must be new, but apparantly it's for real. Check out question 2 on
> Compaq's FAQ at
> http://www.compaq.com/products/storageworks/tape-and-optical-s
torage/ait50gb-qanda.html

If you are lucky enough to get 2:1 compression, it'll even do 100GB.

Compaq gives credit to Sony for inventing AIT, but I haven't seen a 50/100
GB drive from Sony or anyone else.


LIB!  (as in, Well, I'll be...)  I'll have to call the Sony Rep and see why
I'm not in on that one.  However, the data rates that they're quoting for
that drive are not faster than the AIT that I have at work, and the capacity
is 15GB more.  It already takes way too long to do our 30GB backup now, I'd
hate to try to get 50 on there overnight...  
	Greg