Date: 02 Apr 2002 16:48:52 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive recommendations? Message-ID: <c5lmc57gjv.mc5@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20020402152915.A8109@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <3CAA3639.2030401@mac.com> <20020402152915.A8109@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> writes: > In that size range you might look for a refirb DDS-2 drive (4GB native). > I'm seeing them at tapeserv.com[0] for $160. You could probably do > better then that on e-bay. You can get TRAVAN drives for less, but I recently got a used DDS-2 for 5 or 10 $ and I MUCH prefer it to my TRAVAN-4 drive, even IF the tapes were not a third to a fourth of the price of the TR4 tapes. MUCH faster, at least for important rewind, EOT, and other tape movements. The stupid TRAVAN takes as long to go to EOT as it did to record it in the first place (back and forth, back and forth, and I mean the whole tape, not shoe-shinning). Built-in compression too. IIRC, DDS-2 tapes are significantly shorter lived, but it sounds like that matters to you no more than it does to me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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