Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 08:32:05 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large system backups; recommendations for devices & strategies? Message-ID: <199802121329.IAA26862@gatekeeper.itribe.net> In-Reply-To: <199802120024.SAA08885@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, David Kelly wrote: > > I had considered this. How would this compare cost-wise with an > > EXB8505-based changer? > > I don't know the price of an Exabyte changer right now, but 8505's are > somewhere between $1000 and $1500 new. There is an 8700 with similar > specs, external only, its top loading, going for about $800 new. 4mm drives are cheaper and faster, and I have had better reliability with the media. -- Jamie Bowden Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message
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