Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 14:01:02 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Bill Hamilton <bhamil@cmpu.net> Cc: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drive Recommendations? Message-ID: <19981224140102.M12346@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3681B047.4D5287A4@cmpu.net>; from Bill Hamilton on Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 09:08:56PM -0600 References: <19981223143817.Y85005@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.91.981222210109.2405D-100000@dsinw.com> <19981224120758.B12346@freebie.lemis.com> <3681B047.4D5287A4@cmpu.net>
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On Wednesday, 23 December 1998 at 21:08:56 -0600, Bill Hamilton wrote: >>> For the price of some of the high-end Exobyte tapes, I'd probally build >>> a second machine to backup too. Even if you're low on money, a 2nd hard >>> drive will still be a good investment. >> >> They're still *very* expensive compared to disks. The cheapest DDS >> drives cost about $500. For that you can buy a couple of 8 GB disk >> drives, and that might be a better way to do backups :-) > > Related question: Is the Iomega Jaz supported under FreeBSD? > Wouldn't that be cheaper than most tape drives? > (Granted, you only have 2gb per cartidge and they are more costly that > tape.) Yes, they're supported. I've been thinking about them as well, but I don't have any experience with them. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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