[ale] I need to buy a couple large used tape libraries. Thoughts?

[Mark wright]

That's what we call a midsize library.  the company I work for services
them and the truly large ones.  We buy them occasionally at a customers
request so we have contacts in the market.  eamil me off list if you
want to us to get you a quote on something.  Used ones are really quite
cheap.

My only other suggestion is eBay.


Mark



On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 18:53 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> I'm bidding a project where we are going to need a couple large tape
> libraries.  The big kind that can hold 4 or 6 drives each.
> 
> I'm happy to be buying the drives separately (both LTO and DLT, one
> library each.), or if they come with the library that might be nice
> too.
> 
> I'll be driving the tapes / libraries via Fedora, but I doubt that has
> any impact on the requirement.
> 
> Anyway, I am not familiar with the used equipment market for this type
> of thing.  Given the economy I'm hoping I can find a couple cheap.
> Anyone know how I should start my search?
> 
> Thanks
> Greg