Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:54:22 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, gemorga2@vt.edu, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Backup... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9902012250320.19561-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <199901311827.TAA01798@yedi.iaf.nl>
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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
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