7tronics Posted February 23, 2004 Report Share Posted February 23, 2004 Client has recently acquired SkyData SST-2000X which is a relabeled Sony TSL-SA300C 4 tape AIT-1 autoloader. They have Workgroup 5.6 (Windows) on a 200MHz PII with 128MB and NT4 (SP6a). 6-8 workstations usually on this cluster. Working fine using the SDX1-25C tapes. But they want to get a bunch of, much cheaper, SDX-T3N which are the 25GB (raw) AIT cartridges made WITHOUT the MIC (on cartridge memory, Memory In Cartridge). Does it make much practical difference in normal workstation backup operation with infrequent data recovery ? Seems as though this would slow down searches, which is one big advantage of AIT on data recovery. Savings is quite substantial on 20 tapes. And they know enough NOT to go buy USED pull tapes. Comments ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted February 26, 2004 Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 Hi Retrospect does not take advantage of the MIC anyway so you should be fine. A sony rep here in Japan actually told me there are very few applications that take advantage of the MIC Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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