From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 2 16:48:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B3B137B41E for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:48:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93CF9BD2C; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:48:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA19424; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:48:23 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g330mrS90992; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:48:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: paul beard Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive recommendations? References: <3CAA3639.2030401@mac.com> <20020402152915.A8109@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 02 Apr 2002 16:48:52 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020402152915.A8109@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brooks Davis 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