Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 19:18:12 -0400 From: Chris Shenton <chris@absinthe.i3inc.com> To: zoonie@myhouse.com Cc: cassy@loop.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tape Drives for backups? Message-ID: <199708152318.TAA27384@absinthe.i3inc.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Aug 1997 13:17:38 -0400 (EDT)" References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970815131641.1046C-100000@nak.myhouse.com>
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On Fri, 15 Aug 1997 13:17:38 -0400 (EDT) zoonie <zoonie@myhouse.com> wrote: zoonie> from what i remember reading about the travan drives they were zoonie> slow but i have never used one on freebsd. i currently use zoonie> some refirbished exabyte 8200 8mm tape drives. they work zoonie> great... Hi Carlos! I have a HP Colorado TR-4 drive. Cost about $350 mailorder. Tapes are about $30-$35 each. They hold 4GB to 8GB. Transfer rate is said to be about 30MB-60MB/minute. I like the fact that they're linear, modified QIC designs rather than the delicate helical scan. But I haven't used mine enough in a production environment to put it to the real torture test -- so far it's been fine though for my little home net. They work fine under FreeBSD. I'm backing up a 2GB Sun over the net to one attached to a 486dx100 FreeBSD-2.2 box.
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