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Date:      Sun, 25 Feb 1996 14:41:10 -0700 (MST)
From:      Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com>
To:        Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
Cc:        jeff@mercury.jorsm.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [Last revision?]: FreeBSD server considerations..
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.960225143927.9261A-100000@gallup.cia-g.com>
In-Reply-To: <199602252009.PAA01519@crh.cl.msu.edu>

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About how much would a Sony SDT-5000 DAT run? ($US)

On Sun, 25 Feb 1996, Charles Henrich wrote:

> For the tape you should really spend the extra money and get a DAT drive.  For
> that I would recommend the Sony SDT-5000 compressing DAT.  Has a 1mb on-board
> buffer, and sustains nearly 900K/sec during a standard unix dump.  Slows down
> somewhat on already compressed data and such.  With a typical compression you
> get about ~8GB on a $15 120meter tape, or ~$4GB on a 90 meter tape ($7).



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