Date: 15 Mar 2002 11:53:37 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Inexpensive tape drive needed: IDE or SCSI? Message-ID: <7xit7xehfi.t7x@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <004501c1cbf4$8e688dc0$0301a8c0@mike> References: <004501c1cbf4$8e688dc0$0301a8c0@mike>
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I just bought a surplused DDS-2 SCSI DAT drive (4/8 GB) for 10$US and now have a strong preference to these helical scan drives over my 300$ streaming cartridge drive (also SCSI). (Both on an IDE system with a 20$ PCI SCSI card. There's no problem at all with mixing IDE & SCSI.) The streamer takes as long to find the "end of data" as it did to record the data. I don't have numbers, but the DDS-2 drive is just WAY faster in all operations. I suspect that the DDS drives are more likely to have hardware compression. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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