Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 07:05:49 -0700 From: Eric Lee Green <elgreen@iname.com> To: Michael Searle <searle@longacre.demon.co.uk>, mjacob@feral.com, Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: onStream? Message-ID: <99111107110301.32323@ehome.inhouse> In-Reply-To: <19991111005138.43321@longacre.demon.co.uk> References: <199911102306.AAA24666@bowtie.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911101514410.11884-100000@semuta.feral.com> <19991111005138.43321@longacre.demon.co.uk>
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On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Michael Searle wrote: > So DATs are unreliable. They also cost 3 times more than the OnStream. And the tapes are half the cost. Depending upon how much data you back up, a DAT changer could very well be cheaper than the OnStream in a corporate backup environment with a decent tape rotation. > Is the OnStream more reliable than a Travan? Because that is the only drive > of comparable price and capacity that I've seen. INFINITELY so. We put tape drives to the torture test in the EST testing lab, and TR-5/NS20 drives are PATHETIC reliability-wise, approximately 30% of the tapes we wrote could not be read back :-(. The OnStream IDE under Linux, by contrast, has been 100% reliable in our testing (you can get those drivers, for Linux, at our FTP site at ftp.estinc.com ). It's a shame that it looks like I'll have to be booting down into Linux to back up my FreeBSD machine (since I am buying one of those OnStream drives for my own personal use here at home). Especially since FreeBSD device nodes don't back up right under Linux :-(. (Due to brain damage on the Linux side of things, BTW -- not enough space fin their device struct for the longer FreeBSD major/minor numbers). -- Eric Lee Green eric@estinc.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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