From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 13 19:17:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA16653 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:17:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from miro.bestweb.net (miro.bestweb.net [209.94.100.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA16542 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:16:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aryder@bestweb.net) Received: from monet.bestweb.net (aryder@monet.bestweb.net [209.94.100.120]) by miro.bestweb.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA05976; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 22:12:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 22:16:25 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Ryder To: Bruce Albrecht cc: Doug White , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Drives In-Reply-To: <199803130621.AAA25252@zuhause.mn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 4mm Dat Wise: SEAGATE STD24000N 4GB 4MM DAT INTERNAL SCSI Any comments? --- Andrew Ryder aryder@bestweb.net BestWeb Support Team support@bestweb.net "New Yorks Best Internet Service Provider" www.bestweb.net On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Bruce Albrecht wrote: > 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