Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 10:40:41 -0400 From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: sef@kithrup.com, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tape drive questions/recommendations Message-ID: <199606171440.KAA06267@crh.cl.msu.edu> References: <4q2cc1$12pl@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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In lists.freebsd.hardware you write:
>My oldish DAT tape drive is dead. Bugger.
>So I've been looking at other tape drives today. A place called the Disk
>Drive Depot has an Archive drive of some sort, DAT, with a 4 tape
>autochanger. I don't know the model number yet, 'cause they were closed
>today.
>I can also get a Conner or HP DAT drive for <$600, new. Or I can get an
>ExaByte 2501 for a bit <$500.
>So... the Archive one, if it works and has a decent warranty, would be my
>preference (since I have all these DATs here that I've been doing backups
>on, and I'd like to be able to use them should I need to pull something off
>;)), but I do want something reliable and that works flawlessly with
>FreeBSD.
I have been using Sony SDT-5000's for quite some time now, and I have to say
they are one of the nicest DAT's I've used. Its a DDS-2 drive, and has a 1MB
onboard cache, meaning this puppy streams at an honest 700K/sec while doing
dumps/restores (unless of course you hit 200MB of gzips, then we drop down to
about 350K/sec). I recommend them highly, although I think they may be a bit
more expensive than the drives listed above.
-Crh
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Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu
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