Re: Will we never learn
Well STK has had a few duds, too. I once had to pickup 4 X STK SD-3 drives and it turned my station wagon into a low rider...
On the tape side many would agree that the 9840 was an amazing piece of technology. And the 9940 tape threading mechanism was a beauty to watch with the covers off.
Now - it's many years later and the fact that a LTO is even mentioned in the same sentence as T10K is a sad thing.
Even the Sun and Oracle sales people appreciated the margin in STK tape products.
A T10K drive is just as proprietory as an IBM Jaguar, or whatever they're called these days. Both of them are leagues above LTO and the people that buy them know it.
I've built many STK libraries and it was one of my most fun and memorable times in IT.
Moving from STK to Sun felt like arriving on planet Vogon.