From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 7 13:13:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rmc1.crocker.com (rmc1.crocker.com [204.97.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C27414BD0 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 13:13:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jay@heliosonline.com) Received: from pdp20 (ip101-95.dialup.crocker.net [140.186.101.95]) by rmc1.crocker.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA12539; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 16:15:38 -0400 Reply-To: From: "Roland Jay Roberts" To: "Philip Hallstrom" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: Which tape drive: CTD8000, C1533A, STD28000N, or STD5000? Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 16:10:46 -0400 Message-ID: <001d01bf1100$0a7dec00$050a0a0a@helios> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I have to say I've been disappointed by low end DATs. If you can, go to > > www.corpsys.com and get the older Archive DDS2 4 slot changer- it's only > > 500$. 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