From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 25 17:27:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA20602 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Dec 1998 17:27:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20597 for ; Fri, 25 Dec 1998 17:27:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA19196; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 11:57:11 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA23979; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 11:57:11 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981226115710.G12346@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 11:57:10 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: David Kelly , Bill Hamilton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drive Recommendations? References: <199812241903.NAA01402@n4hhe.ampr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199812241903.NAA01402@n4hhe.ampr.org>; from David Kelly on Thu, Dec 24, 1998 at 01:03:51PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 24 December 1998 at 13:03:51 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > Bill Hamilton writes: >> Related question: Is the Iomega Jaz supported under FreeBSD? >> Wouldn't that be cheaper than most tape drives? >> (Granted, you only have 2gb per cartidge and they are more costly that >> tape.) > > What are Jaz selling for now? $235 for the drive, $100 for each 2G > platter? Just shooting at prices its very easy to spend more on media > than on the drive. I feel uncomfortable if I don't have at least 10 > pieces of media laying around for my backup system. > > IMHO a much better value is the Conner 4326 DDS-2 drive for $399 (2G to > 4G, more if compression works for you) Compression should work on all FreeBSD systems. > on $6 (90M DDS-1) to $12 (120M DDS-2) tapes. Recall that this is now quite an old drive. They were being sold off surplus two years ago. > The Conner 8000 is a newer generation of the Conner (actually Archive > relabled Conner, supported by Seagate) 4326. Performance is the same. I thought that Archive bought Conner and was then bought by Seagate, and that all these drives are quite old. > Saving $20 the Conner 4324 is a 4326 without compression. IMHO spend > the $20. Definitely. You'll save it in tapes pretty quickly. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message