Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:51:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Richard Foulk <richard@pegasus.com>, schofiel@xs4all.nl, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strong opinions, anyone? Message-ID: <19980630185118.G1880@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199806300914.XAA05121@pegasus.com>; from Richard Foulk on Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 11:14:13PM -1000 References: <schofiel@xs4all.nl> <199806300914.XAA05121@pegasus.com>
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On Monday, 29 June 1998 at 23:14:13 -1000, Richard Foulk wrote: >> >> On the following bits of kit: >> >> Tandberg TDC 4220 2.0 G Tape streamer >> Exabyte EXB-8200TS 2.5 G Tape streamer >> Fujitsu M295X 4.5 G Disk >> >> Any opinions? > > The Exabyte 8200's are cheap, I'd consider them relatively expensive. DDS drives are much cheaper in Europe. The 8200 is also pretty old now. > reliable Relatively unreliable. This is old technology (full height stuff). The more recent drives are much better. > and have the lowest media cost of just about any backup device. Well, I have to agree about something :-) If you want Exabyte, I've heard of some 8700s going cheap in various places. In view of the improvements recently in the drum life of helical scan tapes, I'd be inclined to go for a more recent one. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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