Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 13:03:51 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Bill Hamilton <bhamil@cmpu.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drive Recommendations? Message-ID: <199812241903.NAA01402@n4hhe.ampr.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Bill Hamilton <bhamil@cmpu.net> of "Wed, 23 Dec 1998 21:08:56 CST." <3681B047.4D5287A4@cmpu.net>
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Bill Hamilton writes: > 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.) What are Jaz selling for now? $235 for the drive, $100 for each 2G platter? Just shooting at prices its very easy to spend more on media than on the drive. I feel uncomfortable if I don't have at least 10 pieces of media laying around for my backup system. IMHO a much better value is the Conner 4326 DDS-2 drive for $399 (2G to 4G, more if compression works for you) on $6 (90M DDS-1) to $12 (120M DDS-2) tapes. Haven't bought from there, and their site doesn't seem to work very well at the moment but http://www.basoncomputers.com/ carries the 4326. Finally, now their (aparently NT web server) is doing its job: http://www.basoncomputer.com/td/td.htm The Conner 8000 is a newer generation of the Conner (actually Archive relabled Conner, supported by Seagate) 4326. Performance is the same. Saving $20 the Conner 4324 is a 4326 without compression. IMHO spend the $20. -- 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-questions" in the body of the message
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