From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Oct 7 9: 2:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from Samizdat.uucom.com (samizdat.uucom.com [198.202.217.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADCCF14C1C; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 09:02:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cshenton@uucom.com) Received: (from cshenton@localhost) by Samizdat.uucom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA06186; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:02:03 -0400 (EDT) To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Philip Hallstrom , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which tape drive: CTD8000, C1533A, STD28000N, or STD5000? References: User-Agent: SEMI/1.13.3 (Komaiko) FLIM/1.12.5 (Hirahata) Emacs/20.3 (i386-pc-solaris2.7) MULE/4.0 (HANANOEN) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.3 - "Komaiko") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Chris Shenton Date: 07 Oct 1999 12:02:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: Matthew Jacob's message of "Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:29:39 -0700 (PWT)" Message-ID: Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:29:39 -0700 (PWT), Matthew Jacob said: Matthew> I have to say I've been disappointed by low end DATs. If you Matthew> can, go to www.corpsys.com and get the older Archive DDS2 4 Matthew> slot changer- it's only 500$. I have one of these too, paid about $150 from an online auction house a couple years ago. Works real well with Amanda doing the scheduling and driving the robot. Got another for about $500 recently for an ISP I support, works well there too. Matthew> I have to say that the TR4/TR5 clones that HP seems to be Matthew> building seem pretty good. Media is expensive though. I also have a TR4 I got before the Archive: it's surprisingly fast but I find the media rather prohibitively expensive -- too much to have a few tapes worth of backup on my home systems. The DDS2 tapes are easy to find and cheap enough to have a pile of backups. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message