Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:36:40 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drives... Message-ID: <19990202093640.O71384@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199902011305.FAA08479@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>; from Don Lewis on Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 05:05:11AM -0800 References: <mjacob@feral.com> <199902011305.FAA08479@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>
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On Monday, 1 February 1999 at 5:05:11 -0800, Don Lewis wrote: > I'm also in the market for a backup solution for home. I haven't had > very good experiences with anything here at work. > > On Jan 31, 9:29am, Matthew Jacob wrote: >> Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drives... > >> All these units support reasonable commands, but there are other >> criteria to consider: >> >>> Likelihood (or not) of tapes jamming/breaking (I'm a bit >> prejudiced against DAT for this) > > I've never had a *that* problem with DAT. We used to see it on our > old Exabyte 8200's. > > I've managed to kill off a number of DAT drives running Amanda here at work. > When doing 500 MB to 1GB backups five nights a week, the HP DAT drives that > we're using only seem to last about a year before starting to get massive > write errors. This ties in pretty much with my experience. > The last drive lasted nearly two years, possibly because I fed it > the cleaning tape once a week instead of every other week. Or possibly because they're getting better. >> Media cost > > I'd guess that 8mm and DAT come in first and second here. There's not much in it. FWIW I've found that DDS tends to be cheaper than 8mm. 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-scsi" in the body of the message
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