Re: AIT drive question

From: Aaron (aaronnospam_at_reddyelectric.com)
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 13:35:17 GMT

Thanks very much to all of you. I really appreciate the input. I think that
I have talked the big guys into allowing me to purchase an AIT1 from Sony.
You are right, very pricey, the drive, 5 tapes, and cleaners will come out
at around $1,500. Thanks again.

Aaron

"Steve Foster [SBS MVP]" <steve.foster@picamar.co.uk> wrote in message
news:xn0dqisbp1r0p0x00a@msnews.microsoft.com...
> Marina Roos [SBS-MVP] wrote:
>
> > Hi Aaron,
> >
> > Maritte is using an AIT drive and she is very happy with it. As I
> > trust her opinion on this, I have suggested this tape drive for a few
> > of my customers when they are ready for their upgrade to SBS 2003.
>
> I too am using AIT1 drives and tapes and have been very happy with them
> so far (about 18 months of usage now).
>
> AIT1 has a native capacity of 35Gb, so with compression you could
> reasonably expect to get 40Gb on them, and possibly as much as 50Gb.
> Sony claim a 90Gb compressed capacity, which implies a compression
> factor of 2.6:1, but I've never seen a site get better than between
> 1.2:1 to 1.5:1. Obviously, the type of data you store will make a big
> difference (eg lots of MP3, JPG type files will result in very little
> compression, since these are heavily compressed to begin with, but lots
> of DOC, XLS, PPT, etc files would probably compress quite well).
>
> If you need higher capacity, then there's AIT2 and AIT3, which are
> backward-compatible (so an AIT1 tape will work in an AIT1, AIT2 or AIT3
> drive).
>
> --
> Steve Foster [SBS MVP]
> ---------------------------------------
> MVPs do not work for Microsoft. Please reply only to the newsgroups.

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