Almost December, almost Christmas; but Santa is in town already A part of the migration project was a complete remake of the backup procedures. The old tape unit is too small for our current needs, hence new hardware was needed.
After opening a huge box, I found my new toy: a nice Quantum Super Loader 3 with a DLT-V4 tape unit in it. You might think "Geez, that thing is rather big for a tape streamer", and you're right; It is quite big, but that's for a good reason.
The housing contains 2 magazines that can each hold up to 8 DLT-V4 tapes. Adding it all up, the tape streamer has a total capacity of about 5.12 Terabytes, divided over 16 tapes. We won't need 5.12 Terabytes yet, but it's nice to have some scalability, and the pricing of this particular unit was quite interesting as well.
Mmm, I love new toys to play with