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

[Jim Kinney]

Yep. Really need to keep the geezer-goggles on and clean when reading email.

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>wrote:

> Jim,
>
> I think you mis-understood.  Not one that holds 4 or 6 tapes.
>
> I want one that will hold 4 or 6 drives.
>
> Something like the Dell PowerVault ML6020.
>
> http://www.dell.com/content/products/compare.aspx/pvaul_ml6000?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz
> ,
> Or better yet the 6030.
>
> I really hoping to find something that will hold a couple hundred
> tapes or so.  Last time I priced something like that new was 10 years
> ago and they were $100K a pop including tape drives iirc.
>
> I may need 3 for this job and I don't have $300K to drop on it.  (I
> can hire a lot of low-cost labor to shuffle tapes around for that
> price.)
>
> I'll follow up with Mark Wright off list and see what he can do for me.
>
> Greg
>
>
> 2008/11/26 Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>:
> > I have a Ecrix VXA 1U library. Holds 10 tapes and a single drive. The
> system
> > has worked flawlessly for 4 years.
> > They have larger capacity drives than the VXA-2 version I use.
> >
> > 4-6 drives is a small library. Ebay has a ton but then it's Ebay. Check
> out
> > item #300276391725
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>
> > 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
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