From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 24 12:18:47 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8843137B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:18:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA9B143FBD for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:18:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simian.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1OKIipG039186; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:18:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030224151314.073ec650@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:23:16 -0500 To: Bill Moran From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives Cc: FreeBSD Stable List In-Reply-To: <3E5A6C94.5080102@potentialtech.com> References: <20030224103601.L22218-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: By Sentex Communications (lava/20020517) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 02:03 PM 24/02/2003 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: >Good luck then. >If you find a cheaper way to go, let me know, as I've spend hours and hours >researching this, and the VXA drives are the best price I could find for that >volume of backup space. > >On the flip side, I will have to say that we've been very happy with the >ones we've purchased. Fast and reliable. Thanks for the report on the gear. BTW, we too are still looking for a cost effective backup solution. DDS changes are slow and the media are pretty expensive. We are at the point now where we have a server with a number of big 120G IDE drives that we do dumps to. I then cp each of the partitions over to a tmp drive on a designated day and then offload that to the tape changer which takes close to 18hrs to run. The rate at which IDE drives are coming down in price, it will almost make sense to use the drive as a 'tape' so to speak. ($1.75CDN per Gig vs 50 cent /Gig) ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message