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ADIC is committed to developing and sustaining an organization that designs, manufactures, distributes and supports hardware and software products, which meet or exceed the customer's expectations. This cleaning cartridge is designed for SDLT220 and SDLT320 drives.
Advantages: Fast, reliable, Good Price Disadvantages: No SCSI cable included, Not Great instructions
...I bought this for our office server which before-hand was running a DDS5 tape drive. I have to say the DDS5 backup system we had was excellent and never caused me any problems.
We got to a point where we needed two tapes to do a backup, and considering we keep backups for up to a month, thats a hell of a lot more tapes we would have to buy.
After a lot of research and learning about DLT and SDLT, we discovered the V160. DLT allows backups to 40GB (80GB Compressed) and SDLT is alot more (i forget the figures). DLT would not have been enough and SDLT is a hell of a lot more expensive.
Quantums V160 is right in the middle of the two and each tape can store up to 160GB data if compressed. We managed to get the drive for around £700 and then bought a number of tapes. It was delivered direct from Quantum within a week.
The one problem I...
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...of DDS (Four flavours) which is a small 4mm tape, 8MM and DLT which looks very like a fat LTO tape (There are a few others but these were the main players).
While the above are still in use this is mainly due to the high cost of LTO.
If LTO is so expensive then why bother with it? Because it does all of the above very, very well. According to datasheets each tape SHOULD last up-to 250,000 hours before failing (MTBF, Meantime Between Failures) which is the same as DLT IV (Nearest rival) but the head life is double the DLT at 60,000 hours. This means, in theory, your tape should last twice as long.
An LTO tape can be written to at rates of 20-30MB per Second. This is very quick meaning that large amounts of data (I.E. Up-to 200GB) can be backed up very quickly (DLT Manages 6MB per Second).
Size:
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An LTO tape is 4.1 x 4.0 x 0.8 in. (105...
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Overall this is a good quality and value for money TV let down slightly by a clunky menu system and, surprise, surprise, a fairly confusing manual which forces you to work pretty well everything out yourself. (It doesn't look too bad when switched off... more
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