From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 12:17:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA19839 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 12:17:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from garion.hq.ferg.com (pm1-14.wmbg.widomaker.com [204.17.220.114]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA19830; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 12:17:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from garion.hq.ferg.com (localhost.hq.ferg.com [127.0.0.1]) by garion.hq.ferg.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA27479; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 15:17:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 15:17:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Branson Matheson X-Sender: branson@garion.hq.ferg.com To: Gary Palmer cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup hardware recommendations? In-Reply-To: <29079.841777745@orion.webspan.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: > Branson Matheson wrote in message ID > : > > I personally have used both the 8mm and the 4mm. I feel that the 4mm > > is a good solution as it is now the one that most are using. Media is > > moderately priced and it seems very stable. 8mm works great and I > > have used it for many years with out any problem. The media is > > cheaper than 4mm.. but you cannot store as much on a single tape. > > Huh? 8mm can go to 9Gb (uncompressed) from memory (EXB-8505). To my > knowledge DAT is only 2 or 4Gb (again, uncompressed) 8mm : 9gb compressed. 5 gb uncompressed. but you're right... a 4mm only stores 2 gb... uncompressed. I stand corrected... however.. given the amount of trouble that I have had with 8mm and have not had with 4mm I will still stand by it. > > > DAT is bleeding edge.. and although seems to be stable.. I try to > DLT? WHo boy.. again.. yes DLT.. ( this has been a very rough day for me. Sorry for the screwups ) > Gary > -- > Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member > FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info > ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?