From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Nov 1 17:10:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA19990 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 17:10:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from nwnexus.wa.com (nwnexus.wa.com [192.135.191.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA19935 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 17:09:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.statsci.com by nwnexus.wa.com with SMTP id AA06051 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Fri, 1 Nov 1996 17:09:56 -0800 Received: from statsci.com [206.63.206.184] with smtp by main.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0vJRjO-0003xoC; Fri, 1 Nov 96 14:06 PST Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Recommended tape drives? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 14:06:25 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi- Well my Exabyte EXB-8200 just bit the dust, so now I'm shopping around for an inexpensive replacement for home use. I need something in the neighborhood of 2Gb (or more) per tape and something that can be use under both FreeBSD and Windows NT (and conceivably, occasionally, Win95 or Win3.1 or Linux). I'm assuming that means sticking with a SCSI device. Given that, I assume it would come down to a choice between a 4mm DAT drive and one of the newer "Travan" drives (e.g. Seagate Tapestor 8000 TR-4) with a SCSI interface. It seems like the DAT drives are more expensive for the drive (~ $500 and up ??) and the others are in the $350 range, more or less, if I remember my WWW surfing session from last night. But the tapes for a DAT drive are less than $10 each and the others are over $20. I'm kinda figuring that I should just take the hit in upfront cost for the lower media cost over the lifetime of the drive. So, does anyone have any recommendations on good places to find an inexpensive (my home computer budget is rather strained these days) DAT drive? Or any other ideas/suggestions? Hmmm...thru http://www.netbuyer.com, I just ran across a Seagate MS 4000R-SB 4Gb DAT drive with prices varying from $299 to $509 for the "internal" drive. Has anyone heard of that model? Thanx, Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org