Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 13:09:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Jin Guojun (ITG staff) <jin@george.lbl.gov> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, richard@pegasus.com Subject: Re: Strong opinions, anyone? Message-ID: <199806302009.NAA27493@george.lbl.gov>
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: } > : } > 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. Are they brand new? Usually, the new Exabyte is much expensive than DDS $1200-$1800 : $400-$600 : } : } > 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. : Exabyte is much reliable than DDS in certain cases. Exabyte provide write / verify at run time, but DDS does not as I was told. This is not just because some people use video tape for Exabyte, I also see the error on those 8mm data tape. -Jin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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