From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 11:51: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 726BC37B429 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:50:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21EA1BE47 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:50:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA22600 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:50:51 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g2FJrcx60897; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:53:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Subject: Re: Inexpensive tape drive needed: IDE or SCSI? References: <004501c1cbf4$8e688dc0$0301a8c0@mike> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 15 Mar 2002 11:53:37 -0800 In-Reply-To: <004501c1cbf4$8e688dc0$0301a8c0@mike> Message-ID: <7xit7xehfi.t7x@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 9 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just bought a surplused DDS-2 SCSI DAT drive (4/8 GB) for 10$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