Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:29:39 -0700 (PWT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which tape drive: CTD8000, C1533A, STD28000N, or STD5000? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9910061327500.1525-100000@feral.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910061259170.3544-100000@mug.adhesivemedia.com>
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> Hello - > I'm looking at getting a tape drive and from all my searching and > reading it seems like DAT/DDS is the way to go. I'm looking at the 4/8GB > SCSI drives. basoncomputer.com has the following drives: > > > 8.0GB Conner CTD8000 SCSI DAT $329 > 8.0GB Hewlett Packerd C1533A SCSI DAT $319 > 8.0GB Seagate STD28000N SCSI DAT $395 > 8.0GB Sony STD5000 SCSI DAT $319 > > Here's what I think I know about these drives: > > Conner - Not a thing. Can't find any info on it on the net, nor any > good/bad posts in these mailing lists. Was Archive, then was bought by Conner. Killed and bought by Seagate. > > HP - Nothing on their site other than it's discontinued, and several > people mentioning they've had problems. > > Seagate - Sounds like a good drive, several good posts about it. > > Sony - Nothing on their site, some posts saying it's great, other's > saying it sucks. > > > Which drive should I get? I don't mind spending the money for the > Seagate, but if I don't have to, why should I? I have to say I've been disappointed by low end DATs. If you can, go to www.corpsys.com and get the older Archive DDS2 4 slot changer- it's only 500$. Otherwise, I say spend more money and get an HP DDS3 drive. I have to say that the TR4/TR5 clones that HP seems to be building seem pretty good. Media is expensive though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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