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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)


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