Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 10:56:55 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drives... Message-ID: <199901311656.KAA01006@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> of "Sun, 31 Jan 1999 14:35:02 %2B1030." <19990131143502.R8473@freebie.lemis.com>
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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
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