From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Jan 31 08:57:01 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA19336 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 08:57:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA19328 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 08:56:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt4-246.HiWAAY.net [208.166.127.246]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA20917 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 10:56:57 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA01006 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 10:56:55 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199901311656.KAA01006@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drives... In-reply-to: Message from Greg Lehey of "Sun, 31 Jan 1999 14:35:02 +1030." <19990131143502.R8473@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 10:56:55 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey writes: > On Saturday, 30 January 1999 at 19:45:37 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > Get an Exabyte 8505 or a DLT. > > They're not quite in the $300 price range. Also, the 8505 is out of > production. Eliant 820 is the current good low end Exabyte, about $1100 internal, $1350 for external (in genuine Exabyte enclosure). They make an 8700 external top loader for about $600 street price. Have never tried the 8700 but have used 8505's and the 820's totally uneventfully. While a Travan 5 tape drive can be purchased for $325, how much are the tapes? I have probably 40 QIC-150, -525, -1000, -1350 tapes, another 40 DDS-1 and DDS-2 tapes, and about 10 8mm tapes. For me, the cost of the media is awfully important. We just got our first Seagate Scorpion DDS-3 tape drives at work. Seagate DDS tape drives have been very reliable for me. At least one vendor has new old stock of the DDS-2 4326 for $399. I have one in my 3.0 FreeBSD box, another in my PowerMac, business partner has one in his PowerMac too. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message