Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 19:08:01 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: john@starfire.mn.org Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: looking for large-capacity tape recommendations, discommendations, comments Message-ID: <199604011708.TAA05168@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199604011618.KAA27598@starfire.mn.org> from "john@starfire.mn.org" at Apr 1, 96 10:18:29 am
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> > Please reply directly, as I do not subscribe to this list. > > I am looking for recommendations and user experience with large- > capacity (14Gb+) 4mm tape drives. These are fairly costly items, I can only speak for 2-8GB 4mm DAT drives and unless you are only using them for occasional backup I would not recommend DAT. Here at a site we are running a nightly full backup of a NT server (under NT) and it turned out that after a couple of weeks that the head of the drive got worn out and older tapes could not be read with same drive any more. We had to buy a new drive to get to our older backups :-( > and we want to make sure that we get one that we'll be happy with > the first time. I know that Exabyte 8500's are pretty good, but > of course, that's an 8mm drive. > > All replies will be appreciated! Thanks. > > Please reply directly, as I do not subscribe to this list. > > John Lind, Starfire Consulting Services > E-mail: john@starfire.MN.ORG USnail: PO Box 17247, Mpls MN 55417 > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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