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To: Lee who wrote (3703)	6/14/1998 11:11:00 PM
From: Yogi - Paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

Lee, <<It could be argued that DLT is the bottom rung of storage and being squeezed out as cost per meg drops. Is the product life of DLT significantly long to provide a return on investment?>> Hummmm. Thought provoking question. Ok, I've written this response three times and trashed it three times. I had all kinds of neat capacity, scalability, and relative cost per gigabyte citations that added up to a lot of BS. My arguement was without merit. Bottom line is: I don't know if DLT does have "legs" given the emergence of GMR capacity. I am going to have to study this thing again. Thanks for making me think, Yogi

To: Lee who wrote (3703)	6/16/1998 11:42:00 PM
From: Yogi - Paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

Lee, Your questions and my attempts to answer them made me realize that my knowledge of DLT and RAID systems was terribly out of date. I am presently trying to catch up but I am a notoriously slow study. I hope these few links will help you in your research in the meantime and I will post when (if) I come to a logical conclusion (theory). datamation.com datamation.com ( much out of date info but good starting point) Excellent introduction to RAID systems-- raid-advisory.com Be careful of out of date information in these links, Yogi