From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 23 19:31:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA18963 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:31:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA18958 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:31:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA10432; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 14:01:22 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id OAA14929; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 14:01:02 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981224140102.M12346@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 14:01:02 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Bill Hamilton Cc: rick hamell , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drive Recommendations? References: <19981223143817.Y85005@freebie.lemis.com> <19981224120758.B12346@freebie.lemis.com> <3681B047.4D5287A4@cmpu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <3681B047.4D5287A4@cmpu.net>; from Bill Hamilton on Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 09:08:56PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 23 December 1998 at 21:08:56 -0600, Bill Hamilton wrote: >>> 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 :-) > > 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.) Yes, they're supported. I've been thinking about them as well, but I don't have any experience with them. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message