Suggestions for DLT drive

The company I work for is in the process of switching from a Maestro system to a Mac Pro DVD SP system. We just purchased a ATTO Express PCI UL50 LP card for the Mac and found that the card uses a high density SCSI port, which doesn't match the Quantum 4000 50 pin Centronic. We are planning to upgrade our DLT drive now and I was wondering what recommendations anyone could give on drives? We currently write to DLT III 10-20gig media. We eventually want to do Blu-ray and HD-DVD's, and this type of media will not be viable for those types of projects.

I have 1 of these and it works great with the same card you have
http://cgi.ebay.com/Compaq-DLT-8000-40-80-Gb-ext-tape-drive-152728-001_W0QQitemZ 120117722065QQihZ002QQcategoryZ39978QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Just so you know...if your going to be doing HD DVD or BluRay in the future, replicators are now taking disc images directly from a firewire or FTP.

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