From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 14 11:49: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from intersys.com (gateway.intersys.com [198.133.74.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD59937B718 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 11:48:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bojar@intersys.com) Received: by gateway.intersys.com id <115471>; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:53:43 -0500 Message-Id: <01Mar14.145343est.115471@gateway.intersys.com> From: "E. Jordan Bojar" To: References: <01Mar14.144744est.115608@gateway.intersys.com> Subject: Re: Buying a tape drive Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:51:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been very happy with the IBM Travan I use. Got it on sale from their website, IDE model, about $200 I think. The tapes are expensive, but if you rotate backup tapes this isn't much of a problem. The hardware is a Seagate mechanism inside, and I tar onto it frequently with no problems. This is a budget solution, so your mileage may vary. ----- Original Message ----- From: "moline chris" To: Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 2:42 PM Subject: Buying a tape drive > Hi. I have been thinking of going with -current but > before I do that I want to get a tape drive. May I get > get some suggestions on what brands would be good to > buy? I am looking for one about 10GB compressed. Also > can anyone tell me about their experiences buying from > ebay? or should i go elsewhere?? and what would be a > reasonable price to pay?? > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message