From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 12 20:56:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.az.home.com (ha1.rdc1.az.home.com [24.1.240.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09E0D14CF9 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 20:56:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from elgreen@iname.com) Received: from ehome.local.net ([24.9.114.169]) by mail.rdc1.az.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19990813035704.NDLV27077.mail.rdc1.az.home.com@ehome.local.net>; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 20:57:04 -0700 From: Eric Lee Green Organization: Myself @ Home To: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa), evablunted@earthling.net ("Langa Kentane") Subject: Re: Best tape drive to buy Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 20:51:35 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <37b36f41.739411187@mail.sentex.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <9908122056520B.05193@ehome.local.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 12 Aug 1999 08:36:36 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: > I have been quite pleased with our Segate DDS3 DAT drive (12GIG > uncompressed). No fuss, no muss... DDS3's are great. The tapes are cheap (around $15 bulk for 12 gig), they're reasonably fast (1 mb/sec), and they're extremely reliable. The only problem is that DDS3's require a SCSI controller, and they are still expensive, at around $900 or so the last time I looked. Can't justify that for my home machine :-(. I'm looking at the NS-20 tape drives, which are based on Travan technology. They are cheap, around $300-$350, the tapes hold 10 gigs uncompressed, but -- the tapes also cost $30-$35 apiece. The OnStreams will one day be good for home backup, but for the moment they don't have a driver :-(. -- Eric Lee Green http://members.tripod.com/e_l_green mail: e_l_green@hotmail.com ^^^^^^^ Burdening Microsoft with SPAM! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message