From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 21 23:07:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA13774 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 23:07:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA13756 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 23:06:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id PAA09844; Fri, 22 May 1998 15:36:47 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980522153647.J27201@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 15:36:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Max Khon , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI tape References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Max Khon on Thu, May 21, 1998 at 04:04:46PM +0700 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 Thu, 21 May 1998 at 16:04:46 +0700, Max Khon wrote: > Hi, there! > > What SCSI tape (~$1000) is the best choice for FreeBSD? At that price, you have a choice between high-end DDS and medium-scale Exabytes. I have both, and I think that I'd probably go for the DDS-2 drives. Avoid older Exabytes (8500 or less) and DDS-1 tapes like the plague: they're much less reliable than newer models. Greg -- See complete headers for address 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