From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 23 19:11:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA17230 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:11:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.cmpu.net (mail.cmpu.net [204.96.11.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA17225 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:11:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bhamil@cmpu.net) Received: from cmpu.net (dal-isdn-1-1227.computek.net [205.241.182.227]) by mail.cmpu.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA05272; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 21:14:10 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bhamil@cmpu.net) Message-ID: <3681B047.4D5287A4@cmpu.net> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 21:08:56 -0600 From: Bill Hamilton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey CC: rick hamell , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drive Recommendations? References: <19981223143817.Y85005@freebie.lemis.com> <19981224120758.B12346@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Related question: Is the Iomega Jaz supported under FreeBSD? Wouldn't that be cheaper than most tape drives? (Granted, you only have 2gb per cartidge and they are more costly that tape.) > > For the price of some of the high-end Exobyte tapes, I'd probally build > > a second machine to backup too. Even if you're low on money, a 2nd hard > > drive will still be a good investment. > > They're still *very* expensive compared to disks. The cheapest DDS > drives cost about $500. For that you can buy a couple of 8 GB disk > drives, and that might be a better way to do backups :-) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message