Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:59:17 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Michael Searle <searle@longacre.demon.co.uk> Cc: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: onStream? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911101658460.11884-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <19991111005138.43321@longacre.demon.co.uk>
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On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Michael Searle wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 03:15:51PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > <snip> > > > > > > > > > >device grief, but for only 25-50GB? It's true that it's a cheap drive, but > > > >you know, therere are definitely other devices out there too. > > > > > > > They have 70GB in the picture and are working on bigger drives. > > > > > > The guy I spoke to also claimed that the drives are more reliable than > > > dat. > > > > I've heard mixed reports of reliability, and comparisons with DAT aren't > > on point. It should be comparisons with DLT and AIT. > > > > So DATs are unreliable. They also cost 3 times more than the OnStream. As to > DLT, well I'm certainly not spending 1500ukp on a tape, however reliable it is. > (although I've heard that they aren't very reliable either, just fast...) > > Is the OnStream more reliable than a Travan? Because that is the only drive > of comparable price and capacity that I've seen. I can't confirm for myself. Given that the HP Travan SCSI clone works for FreeBSD now, I'd say it's more reliable than the OnStream. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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