From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Jan 11 11:34:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA00697 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 11:34:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from persprog.com (persprog.com [204.215.255.203]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA00687 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 11:34:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by persprog.com (8.7.5/4.10) id OAA15555; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 14:29:05 -0500 Message-Id: <199701111929.OAA15555@persprog.com> Received: from dasa(192.2.2.199) by cerberus.ppi.com via smap (V1.3) id sma015553; Sat Jan 11 14:28:44 1997 Received: from DASA/SpoolDir by dasa.ppi.com (Mercury 1.21); 11 Jan 97 14:29:05 +0500 Received: from SpoolDir by DASA (Mercury 1.30); 11 Jan 97 14:28:49 +0500 From: "David Alderman" Organization: Personalized Programming, Inc To: "Roger M. Levasseur" , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 14:28:43 +0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Recommend 8mm exabyte drives? Priority: normal In-reply-to: <199701111651.LAA01503@midnight.mv.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.50) Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 11 Jan 97 at 11:51, Roger M. Levasseur proclaimed: > > If you are prepared to use and treat the drive as mentioned, ok, otherwise > stay clear. When I got a tape drive for my home pc in 1994, I had > considered 8mm, 4mm, and QIC. For reasons based on cost, reliability, > and the above factors, I went with a QIC-525. The density doesn't compare, > but I've had zero problems in 3 years of usage. I don't have enough > experience to know if 4mm is better or worse than 8mm in terms of > reliability. These days, if money wasn't an issue, I would pick DLT > over 8mm. > Just look in any Server oriented magazine and look at the backup system advertisements. There are usually a few 8mm but usually over 80% of the ads are for DLT these days. Of course, be prepared to hand over the gold to get one. Unfortunately, some of us using tapes for some time now still remember the '8200 (cringe). DLT's have a even more shady past, but it's much farther in the past (TK50, anyone?). Please forgive my attempt at levity... ====================================== When philosophy conflicts with reality, choose reality. Dave Alderman -- dave@persprog.com ======================================