From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 6 15: 6:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mug.adhesivemedia.com (mug.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750AB15776; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:06:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by mug.adhesivemedia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA04893; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:07:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:07:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: Matthew Jacob Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which tape drive: CTD8000, C1533A, STD28000N, or STD5000? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [which dds drive to get snipped] > 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. Are they decent drives? I didn't include them in my list due to the number of posts in these mailing lists complaining about them. The drive itself seems a lot cheaper. Media seems to be about $30... so if you don't need many tapes is that a good way to go? -philip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message