The company I work at is considering upgrading their backup solution. Currently we're using an Exabyte tape drive and an Iomega REV drive (I know) to do two separate backups. While both backups will easily fit on the VXA tape, management insists that the information has to be separate. It looks like we will be replacing the REV drive with something else.
At first we were thinking of just getting another Exabyte drive, but we decided to look into something with a little more capacity and speed. First we looked at the LTO solutions. This is where I stumbled onto the AIT drives. People seem to say good things about them, and the price is right (which matters in this company). From what I've been able to gather so far, they are very comparable to each other with the only exception is that LTO has higher capacity tapes and it has support for huge tape libraries which AIT seems to lack. However, even the medium capacity AIT drives will fit our needs just fine so capacity doesn't seem to be an issue. We're also not worried about having huge tape libraries since we don't have that much data to back up. It all comes down to performance and reliability. Has anyone here had experience with both drives, and can you give any input on how they compare as far as performance and reliability goes?
At first we were thinking of just getting another Exabyte drive, but we decided to look into something with a little more capacity and speed. First we looked at the LTO solutions. This is where I stumbled onto the AIT drives. People seem to say good things about them, and the price is right (which matters in this company). From what I've been able to gather so far, they are very comparable to each other with the only exception is that LTO has higher capacity tapes and it has support for huge tape libraries which AIT seems to lack. However, even the medium capacity AIT drives will fit our needs just fine so capacity doesn't seem to be an issue. We're also not worried about having huge tape libraries since we don't have that much data to back up. It all comes down to performance and reliability. Has anyone here had experience with both drives, and can you give any input on how they compare as far as performance and reliability goes?