From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 08:06:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3543016A4BF for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:06:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp802.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp802.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8CF6543F85 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:06:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jasondic@sbcglobal.net) Received: from adsl-67-125-129-106.dsl.frsn02.pacbell.net (HELO 192.168.1.2) (jasondic@sbcglobal.net@67.125.129.106 with plain) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Sep 2003 15:06:23 -0000 From: jasondic@sbcglobal.net To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:01:51 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <000001c372e9$8faef460$2600a8c6@cromedome> In-Reply-To: <000001c372e9$8faef460$2600a8c6@cromedome> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309040801.51727.jasondic@sbcglobal.net> Subject: Re: Recommendations for Tape Drives? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jasondic@sbcglobal.net List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 15:06:24 -0000 I'd go with an HP IDE travan drive. HP is known for being very throughrough in their engineerig process, but all travan drives are "low end" and have a high rate of failure, but consider them the best of the bunch. If you're looking for series data protection, then you must get SCSI, and probably move up to something like a DDS4/5 drive. For more data storage/speed of backup, the top of the line right now is Ultrium or DLT320 (I'd stick with HP however, so Ultrium (LTO) is the best bet). Unfortunatly you pay a pretty penny for storage in tape drive megabytes. Those LTO 1 drives can store 100gb native, 200 compressed (at least in theory), but they can cost around 5 thousand dollars a peice! The travan drives can be had for much much less, but then they have a higher then normal failure rate compared to all other tape drive types (hence their low cost). The idea of a low end backup solution involving tape drives hasn't truely been realized in my opinion. For any real backup you'll have to spend a good dollar. Just my two cents... -Jason On Thursday 04 September 2003 06:36, Jason A. Crome wrote: > Good localtime() to you, > > I am in the process of setting up several x86-based FreeBSD servers and > will be in need of a quality backup solution. Which tape drives, in your > experience, play nicely with FreeBSD, and what software would you recommend > to go with it? > > Thank you for your time and consideration. > > -------------------------------------------------- > Jason A. Crome > Senior Software Engineer, DEVNET, Inc. > E-Mail: crome@devnetinc.com > http://www.devnetinc.com > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"