Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:28:58 -0700 From: Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold <gunnar@paganlibrary.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>, Aleksandar Simic <alex@frustum.clara.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Taravan tape drives Message-ID: <00042518301700.00333@gunnar.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <3905E6B3.D2327553@3-cities.com> References: <20000425174518.A595@frustum.clara.co.uk> <3905E6B3.D2327553@3-cities.com>
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Agreed. Travan drives are intednded for the consumer market, not servers (ie. low usage). OTOH, Imation tapes have a lifetime warranty on them. Once you buy a tape, the only thing you pay for is postage to send it in for a replacement. On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > Aleksandar Simic wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I would be interested in peoples experiences with $Subject. > > > > How well are they supported ? Which is the model that you would > > recommend ? etc. > > Just remember that the real tapes are the DLT's. They were desinged to > be more or less bullet proof. Travan drive's are much cheaper up front > and you keep paying for each tape that you purchase. Everything with > DLT is expensive. Dat drive's are more expensive than Travan's but the > tapes are much cheaper. The DLT's seem to be the most reliable. I > never had much luck with the QIC style of tapes, which the Travan's > fall into. You could backup 40,000 files but many times only 39,995 > would compare and they hadn't been modified during the backup process. > That wasn't a backup in my book. I had a lot better luck with the > DAT's. One of them got me during my battle with upgrading from 3.4-s > to 4.0-s. > > Kent > > > > > Thank you for your time, > > > > --Alex > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com > http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > > SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ > > Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR > http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, we are all tools of the Conspiracy... Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold The Pagan Library http://www.paganlibrary.com --------------------------- FreeBSD 3.4----------PalmOS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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