Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 20:51:52 -0600 From: Bruce Albrecht <Bruce.Albrecht@seag.fingerhut.com> To: Ron Bolin <rlb@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Try NEW SEAGATE CTT8000 TR-4 SCSI Tape? Message-ID: <9612060251.AA12449@gf006e0.fingerhut.com.> In-Reply-To: <32A6C34D.41C67EA6@mindspring.com> References: <32A6C34D.41C67EA6@mindspring.com>
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Ron Bolin writes: > Has anyone tried the new Seagate CTT8000 TR-4 Taravan SCSI tape drive > yet? > This seemed like a good alternative to DAT based on the price $259.00 > and > 200K hours MTBF claimed by Seagate. > See http://www.seagate.com/tape/tsidescsi.shtml for details. I haven't tried it, but I'm not convinced that it's really a better deal than 4mm DAT drives. It's not hard to find DAT drives for less than $600, and the media for a 90M tape is between $5 and $10, so a DAT drive with 20 tapes can be cheaper than a $250 drive with 20 tapes that cost $30-40. JEM Computers (http://www.jemcomp.com) sells an internal Conner Autoloader for $399. They say it's new, but it may be a discontinued model. It supports 2 GB per tape (up to 4 GB compressed), and has a 4 cassette magazine. Full height 5.25, though. I don't have this one, but I did buy an external 4mm DAT drive from them.
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