From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Feb 1 19:54:50 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA02900 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 19:54:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA02893 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 19:54:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA16125; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:54:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:54:22 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Wilko Bulte cc: mjacob@feral.com, gemorga2@vt.edu, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Backup... In-Reply-To: <199901311827.TAA01798@yedi.iaf.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > As Matthew Jacob wrote... > > DLTIV tape -> ~40GB with compression. > > DLT7000 -> 35/70 Gb on IV tape. > > > MO is maybe 2GB now? 5.2GB (10.4 with compression!) Still, this isn't an apples to apples comparison here. You're talking sequential vs. random access (unless someone has written a block device driver for tape drives.) > And don't calculate price/Mb ;-) And CDRs are cheaper if you wanna slice it that way. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message