Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 20:51:35 -0700
From: Eric Lee Green <elgreen@iname.com>
To: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa), evablunted@earthling.net ("Langa Kentane")
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Best tape drive to buy
Message-ID: <9908122056520B.05193@ehome.local.net>
References: <37b36f41.739411187@mail.sentex.net>
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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
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