Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 16:10:46 -0400 From: "Roland Jay Roberts" <jay@heliosonline.com> To: "Philip Hallstrom" <philip@adhesivemedia.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Which tape drive: CTD8000, C1533A, STD28000N, or STD5000? Message-ID: <001d01bf1100$0a7dec00$050a0a0a@helios> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910061505440.4772-100000@mug.adhesivemedia.com>
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> > I have to say I've been disappointed by low end DATs. If you can, go to > > www.corpsys.com and get the older Archive DDS2 4 slot changer- it's only > > 500$. 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? I've got a Seagate TR4 drive (SCSI) on my system at home. I haven't had any problems with it; it's a nice drive. The price of the tapes is a limiting factor, but if you don't need many (i.e., home use, for instance, or a server where things don't change (much)), it would certainly be an economical solution. // Jay Roberts // HELIOS Custom Training, Inc. // mailto:jay@heliosonline.com // http://www.heliosonline.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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