From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 1 12:44:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA14328 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ainet.com (ainet.com [204.30.40.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA14319 for ; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 12:44:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmscott@ainet.com) Received: from perl.ainet.com (perl.ainet.com [204.30.40.14]) by ainet.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA12672; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 12:43:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980801124448.0082a430@mail.ainet.com> X-Sender: jmscott@mail.ainet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 12:44:48 -0700 To: Nathan Dorfman , Scott From: "Joseph M. Scott" Subject: Re: CD writers as a backup medium Cc: Andrew Bromage , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980801144333.A12731@fcc.net> References: <19980801105021.B12513@fcc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >A 90 meter DAT tape can hold up to 4 gigs per tape. You can get them >for about $9 a piece, according to people who buy them. You'll need >6 CDs to back up 4 gigs on CD, that's $6-9. Use the DAT tape twice >and you've already gotten your money's worth. A good CD-R drive is >$400 (SCSI). How much is a SCSI DAT drive, anyone? Plus, I'm not >even mentioning that you can buy 120m tapes for only a few dollars >more. > >> > -- >> > Nathan Dorfman | E-mail: nathan@fcc.net >> > Frontline Communications | Front desk: 914-623-8553: We recently sat down and talked about which tape drive to go with. The DAT if I recall are faster, the tapes are cheaper ( around $9 or $10 sounds right I thing, compared to $30 to $40 for most other types ) but the DAT drives usually run over $700 if I recall. For the machines that we were buying that added more cost than we could justify. This is all is US dollars. Joseph Scott jmscott@ainet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message