From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Feb 9 22:51:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA25666 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 22:51:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [195.1.171.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA25643 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 22:51:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) From: sthaug@nethelp.no Received: (qmail 15882 invoked by uid 1001); 10 Feb 1998 06:50:58 +0000 (GMT) To: michaelv@MindBender.serv.net Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Exabyte Enspire NS8? Was: Q: Opinions on which Tape Drive to Buy? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Feb 1998 21:38:26 -0800" References: <199802100538.VAA18331@MindBender.serv.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.28.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 07:50:58 +0100 Message-ID: <15880.887093458@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >After looking at the Exabyte site, their Enspire NS8 (or Eagle NS8 > >part-no. NS8-DSU-000) looks attractive. It's a TR-4 Travan (QIC 3095) > >drive with 3 year limited warranty. What experience have you had with > >this Tape drive in FreeBSD-stable? > > Avoid travan drives. Expensive tapes. Cheap, slower, less durable > drives (versus DAT). I have the Tecmar NS8i (internal) drive, which I believe is basically the same as the Exabyte. I agree about the expensive tapes, but aside from that it seems to be working just fine so far. Actual speed is from 570 kByte/s up to around 1.1 MByte/s, depending on how well your data will compress (the Tecmar unit has builtin compression). > Of course, it's your choice... Of course. I tend to be skeptical about the "less durable" claim, since the Travan drives are so much simpler mechanically. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hardware" in the body of the message