The big boys of backup: 4 tape devices tested

Specifications

Product IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive 3592 Overland Ultrium LTO2 C7380 Quantum SDLT-600 Tandberg SLR140
Drive RRP (inc GST) $55,000 $10,164 $9130 $3900
Media RRP (inc GST) per cartridge $470 $193 $209 $143
Distributor IBM Digital Tape Solutions Quantum T Data
Phone 132 426 02 9496 1111 1800 999 285 02 8852 5000
Web www.storage.ibm.com www.dlt.com.au www.quantum.com www.tdata.com.au
Warranty 1 year 3 year RTB 3 year RTB 3 year
Tape type Proprietary ½in advanced metal particle (dual layer) Ultrium 2 Super DLT II SLR
Drive form factor External External External External
Interface Fibre Channel Ultra SCSI 2 LVD 160 Ultra SCSI 2 LVD 160 SCSI-3 Multimode Ultra Wide (SE) and Ultra2 (LVD)
Native capacity per tape 300GB 200GB 300GB 70GB
Typical compressed capacity per tape 900GB 400GB 600GB 140GB
Data transfer rate* 40MBps native
120MBps compressed		 30MBps native
60MBps compressed		 36MBps native
72MBps compressed		 6MBps native
12MBps compressed
Platforms supported (eg IBM AIX, Novell Netware, etc) IBM AIX, OS/390, OS/400, VSE/ESA, z/OS and z/VM; Windows 2000, NT, Server 2003; Linux, HP-UX, Solaris Solaris, Netware, Windows NT 4 and 2000, AIX, SCO Unix, Tru64 Unix, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS Windows NT4, 2000, XP, 2003; Linux Red Hat. (IBM AIX, IRIX, HP-UX, Netware and Solaris are -pending") Windows NT, 2000, 2003; Netware, Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris
*This specification supplied by vendor, not Lab tested.
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