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

[Greg Freemyer]

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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