From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 21 02:20:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA21467 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 02:20:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA21440 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 02:20:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id LAA28148 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 11:20:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id LAA00438; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 11:20:20 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 11:20:20 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199712211020.LAA00438@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E References: <199712200941.KAA29224@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199712210212.UAA14247@nospam.hiwaay.net> From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: Segate Tape stor 3200MB X-Original-Newsgroups: local.freebsd.hackers To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Kelly wrote: > That would be an Arcive Anaconda 2750? Yep, i think so. > QIC-9130, uses the *real* QIC > tapes such as QIC-150 a.k.a. DC6150, and eveything in between. Think I > got my two at Onsale for about $139 each. That's a reasonable price, given the robustness of good ol' QIC, compared to these el-cheapo technologies. > OTOH Archive DDS-1 drives > have been aproaching the $225 price. In (not only) my experience, DAT doesn't last that long. The drives last at most two years (daily use) until they are worn out, and a repair is usually in the same price range as a new drive. Media life is short, too. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)