From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Oct 6 19:19:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8309F151C6; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 19:17:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA02732; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 19:17:20 -0700 Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 19:17:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Philip Hallstrom Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which tape drive: CTD8000, C1533A, STD28000N, or STD5000? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > [which dds drive to get snipped] > > > I have to say I've been disappointed by low end DATs. If you can, go to > > www.corpsys.com and get the older Archive DDS2 4 slot changer- it's only > > 500$. Otherwise, I say spend more money and get an HP DDS3 drive. > > > > I have to say that the TR4/TR5 clones that HP seems to be building seem > > pretty good. Media is expensive though. > > Are they decent drives? I didn't include them in my list due to the > number of posts in these mailing lists complaining about them. The drive > itself seems a lot cheaper. Media seems to be about $30... so if you > don't need many tapes is that a good way to go? I've found the HP T20 to be a fine unit. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message