We have been using SDLT320 drives for several years now and not one problem so far. I have had faulty tapes, but I send them back and Maxell keeps replacing them.

I have limited experience with LTO, but understand that it is great. We went with SDLT for our library because we wanted backward read compatibility with our other sites DLT70 / DLT80 tapes.

-Dave

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