From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 29 20:15:22 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA10312 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:15:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA10303 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:15:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from bb-b1-11a (ppp102.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.102]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA01065; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:14:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:17:49 -0800 () From: Rick Hamell To: "Brian J. McGovern" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape drive In-Reply-To: <199901300325.WAA22230@spoon.beta.com> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@dsinw.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > fits in a 3.5" bay, and has warning horns and lights, etc. Unfortunately, I'm > not at the job where they had them anymore, but I believe you can pick them > up from a company called "Wicked Cheap Drives" (their prices are good) for > like $100-$150... I'd use them now, but I don't have anything thats not SCSI > already worth mirroring... If you have problems finding them, let me know, I'll > dig up the URL of the vendor on Monday. I found it, it's www.dirtcheapdrives.com the unit I assume you were talking about is the ABS Raid 1 IDE solutions. They do indeed look nice, in fact I'm going to recommend that my company look at one to save costs on new servers going out the door. (We're using SCSI currently.. but it's way overkill for these servers...) But we're still back to the data backup problem...:) My suggestion was to build a 2nd computer system heavy on drives and mirror to it for the greatest bit of redundancy. It'll be about the same price as one of those DAT tape drives, and will be more reliable in the long run. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message