Best Brand of SLDTs?

[BuGaLoU]

I call on fellow network admins for my question!

Anyone who has dealt with large amounts of SDLT tapes knows that one bad tape can really ruin your day! With that in mind I am about to purchase some more tapes for my company and was wondering peoples opinions on brands. So far the brands I see are Sony, Maxell, HP, Quantum, and Fujifilm. Price is not an issue, I just want tapes I know won't jam my drive and give me CRC errors after 2 uses.

Opinions?

 

[BuGaLoU]

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[Blitzrommel]

No experience with SDLT tapes as we have LTO-1/DDS4/AIT-1 tapes at work, but Fujifilm and Sony have served us well.

On the flipside, I use Imation for my LTO drive and it works well too.

 

[bmartin]

I really like Fujifilm tapes for DLT. Of course, our spectralogic 20k uses sony AIT. However, our gaming servers are still using DLT, and Fuji seems to be the best bang for the buck.