From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 3:10: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E14F837B416 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 03:09:56 -0800 (PST) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id g2FB9kj32430; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:09:47 +0200 Message-Id: <200203151109.g2FB9kj32430@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 15 Mar 02 13:08:41 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: "Mike Loiterman" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:08:33 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Inexpensive tape drive needed: IDE or SCSI? In-reply-to: <004501c1cbf4$8e688dc0$0301a8c0@mike> X-info: Headers changed by Barricade Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Mike! On 15 Mar 02 at 1:39 you wrote: > 3) If SCSI can't work with IDE, or if SCSI just isn't worth it, what > IDE drives should I consider? Again, under $200. In my experience, IDE tape drives suck. You should try getting SCSI. I don't see why SCSI controller should have any problems working in a machine which also has IDE. As to recommending specific drives, I can only say that I have HP SureStore DDS-3 drive which is ca 3 years old and works fine in my FreeBSD machine, backing up ca 10 GB every weeknight. It can back up 20 GB uncompressed, somewhat more when using hardware compression. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Avoid those abysmally horrible, outrageously repellent exaggerations. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message