From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jun 30 11:08:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA04114 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 11:08:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pegasus.com (pegasus.com [206.127.225.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA04020 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 11:08:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from richard@pegasus.com) Received: by pegasus.com (8.6.8/PEGASUS-2.2) id IAA10718; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 08:25:58 -1001 Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 08:25:58 -1001 From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Message-Id: <199806301826.IAA10718@pegasus.com> In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey "Re: Strong opinions, anyone?" (Jun 30, 6:51pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strong opinions, anyone? Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org } > } > 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. They are fairly inexpensive some places. } } > reliable } } Relatively unreliable. This is old technology (full height stuff). } The more recent drives are much better. Mature technology. Built to be used in data centers, not toys like many of the other pc backup products. } } > and have the lowest media cost of just about any backup device. } } Well, I have to agree about something :-) Yes, and this can easily make these units the least expensive backup tool going. You *do* have to buy media. Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message