[eric343]

I just managed to aquire an Exabyte 18D 7-tape DLT robotic tape library, free... unfortunately, the reason it was free is that the Quantum DLT 7000 is, according to the sysadmin that was giving it away, broken. Does anyone here know what the difference between a standard internal Quantum and the modified Exabyte version is, and/or where I can get a drive that will function with said tape library without breaking the bank?

 

[usc goose]

what the hell is a robotic tape library? if i may so inquire that is.

 

[penvzila]

I think it's an automatic loading system. But surely exabyte is the brandname and not the capacity?

 

[usc goose]

i still don't know what that is. but if it's going to take more than a few lines to explain don't bother. i don't care that much. (it'd still be nice to know one day)

 

[eric343]

Yes, Exabyte is the brand name (alas! An exabyte capacity library would be seriously cool

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A robotic tape library is a backup device that contains one or more tape drives (that usually store >30GB of data per tape) and a robot arm that moves tapes stored in the magazine to and from the tape drive, which eliminates the need for an operator to manually change tapes...