Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 12:44:48 -0700 From: "Joseph M. Scott" <jmscott@ainet.com> To: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@fcc.net>, Scott <scott@SchematiX.net> Cc: Andrew Bromage <bromage@queens.unimelb.edu.au>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD writers as a backup medium Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980801124448.0082a430@mail.ainet.com> In-Reply-To: <19980801144333.A12731@fcc.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9808011006210.9686-100000@SchematiX.net> <19980801105021.B12513@fcc.net> <Pine.BSF.4.01.9808011006210.9686-100000@SchematiX.net>
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>A 90 meter DAT tape can hold up to 4 gigs per tape. You can get them >for about $9 a piece, according to people who buy them. You'll need >6 CDs to back up 4 gigs on CD, that's $6-9. Use the DAT tape twice >and you've already gotten your money's worth. A good CD-R drive is >$400 (SCSI). How much is a SCSI DAT drive, anyone? Plus, I'm not >even mentioning that you can buy 120m tapes for only a few dollars >more. > >> > -- >> > Nathan Dorfman | E-mail: nathan@fcc.net >> > Frontline Communications | Front desk: 914-623-8553: We recently sat down and talked about which tape drive to go with. The DAT if I recall are faster, the tapes are cheaper ( around $9 or $10 sounds right I thing, compared to $30 to $40 for most other types ) but the DAT drives usually run over $700 if I recall. For the machines that we were buying that added more cost than we could justify. This is all is US dollars. Joseph Scott jmscott@ainet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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