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On Mon, 29 Jun 1998 richard@pegasus.com 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, reliable and have the lowest media cost
    > of just about any backup device.
    > 
    > A great deal.

Exabyte is a good deal, remote sensing people are using them on a daily
basis here. They are using tapes like others were using floppies a few
years ago.

You might want to check the firmware though. We had here a number of
odd drives in a EXB-120 juke. It was said that it was the combination
that made it behave strangely, but I had problems hooking the thing up
to a Sparc20.

EXB 8505 are _very_ reliable though. Also, you will be able to read a
tape written on one driver on another, which is an advantage.

Nick

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