From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Dec 31 11:53:04 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA17876 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 11:53:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from persprog.com (persprog.com [204.215.255.203]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA17867 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 11:52:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by persprog.com (8.7.5/4.10) id OAA30245; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 14:42:49 -0500 Received: from dasa(192.2.2.199) by cerberus.ppi.com via smap (V1.3) id sma030238; Tue Dec 31 14:42:32 1996 Received: from DASA/SpoolDir by dasa.ppi.com (Mercury 1.21); 31 Dec 96 14:42:33 +0500 Received: from SpoolDir by DASA (Mercury 1.30); 31 Dec 96 14:42:10 +0500 From: "David Alderman" Organization: Personalized Programming, Inc To: Andreas Klemm , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, aat81@dial.pipex.com Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 14:42:09 +0500 Subject: Re: Are HP DAT drives more unreliable than others? Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: <6C4F94E2D8B@dasa.ppi.com> Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > From: Andreas Klemm > > Sorry, can't give you more real numbers or facts. I'd switch to > QIC technology if I were you. I think the drives are more robust. > Tandberg QIC tapes are really fine. I have a 4222 and am very > satisfied. > > Had no problem to read my old 150 MB cartridges, which were written > with an Archive Vipwer 2525 (a 525MB streamer). > > And this drive is really very silent. An additional plus. > > I think the primary reason few people use the large QIC drives any nore is the relatively low capacity of the drives. 525 meg (or even 1 Gig) is not enough for todays multigigabyte servers. The cost of cartridges is also high relative to DDS or 8mm. I wonder if the new high capacity TR-4 based SCSI backups are any good? Aren't DLT's very reliable? For high capacity applications, I thought DLT's were considered best. ====================================== When philosophy conflicts with reality, choose reality. Dave Alderman -- dave@persprog.com ======================================