Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:33:32 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Christoph Sold <christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [offtopic] DLT 1 vs. DLT 40/80 tape drive recommendation? Message-ID: <20010119113332.A1726@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3A65D07D.B1AF84C2@i-clue.de>; from "Christoph Sold" on Wed Jan 17 18:03:57 GMT 2001 References: <3A65D07D.B1AF84C2@i-clue.de>
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In the last episode (Jan 17), Christoph Sold said: > I plan to switch to DLT for our backup system. I calculated a single > drive with 40G capacity (uncompressed) will suffice. There are DLT 1 > drives (e.g. HP SureStore DLT 1e) as well as DLT 40/80 drives (e.g. > HP SureStore 80e). The latter cost more than twice the former. Both > claim to store 40G uncompressed onto the same tape. What's the > difference? DLT1 runs as 1/2 the speed of the DLT8000 and has a different # of tracks and density, so the tapes aren't interchangeable. There's a nice PDF file comparing the different drives at http://www.overlanddata.com/mktg.nsf/Lookup/dltdrives.pdf/$file/dltdrives.pdf If you need more than 40gb native per tape, you might want to get SuperDLTs, which will do 100gb native. They just started shipping, though, so they'll be expensive. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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