From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 12 22:33:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA02599 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 22:33:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abby.skypoint.net (abby.skypoint.net [199.86.32.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA02561 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 22:32:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bruce@zuhause.mn.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by abby.skypoint.net (8.8.7/jl 1.3) with UUCP id AAA00703; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 00:32:08 -0600 (CST) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by zuhause.mn.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) id AAA25252; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 00:21:03 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 00:21:03 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199803130621.AAA25252@zuhause.mn.org> From: Bruce Albrecht To: Andrew Ryder Cc: Doug White , Nicholas Merrill , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Drives In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 20.3 "Vatican City" XEmacs Lucid Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Ryder writes: > Well there are drives which are slow and cheap (tarvan) and fast and > expensive (dat) I was looking for a working list of suggestions from > people who do use FreeBSD and backup their data.. We use a tarvan at work > and its slow compared to a dat drive, ofcourse.. gotta consider the price > though. Most DAT drives are more expensive than Travan drives, but if you're looking at a SCSI Travan 4 drive for about $200-300, and a DDS-2 DAT drive for about $500-600, the cost of the media can make the Travan drive more expensive. For example, most 90m DAT tapes are less than $6, and hold 2GB (up to 4 GB compressed), and 120m DAT tapes can be had for about $10 (4 GB, up to 8 GB compressed). The Travan 4 tape equivalent to a 120m DAT tape typically runs $30-40, so if you plan on having 10-15 tapes, the Travan drive quickly becomes the more expensive choice. I haven't priced DDS-3 or DLT drives, but I think both of them tend to cost well over $1k. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message