From owner-freebsd-stable  Fri Feb  2  1:28:38 2001
Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id 3191537B491; Fri,  2 Feb 2001 01:28:21 -0800 (PST)
Received: from simoeon.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47])
	by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f129SKM59259;
	Fri, 2 Feb 2001 04:28:20 -0500 (EST)
	(envelope-from mike@sentex.net)
Message-Id: <5.0.1.4.0.20010202041945.02288cb0@marble.sentex.ca>
X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca
X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.1
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 04:21:44 -0500
To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Subject: Re: ast0: TAPE <OnStream DI-30> 
Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <200102020922.f129MTM12429@mass.dis.org>
References: <Your message of "Fri, 02 Feb 2001 04:10:42 EST." <5.0.1.4.0.20010202040716.01f2b3d0@marble.sentex.ca>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

At 01:22 AM 2/2/01 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:

>Media cost for these devices is horrific, due to their relatively low
>volume.  A $200 drive is false economy when the tapes for it are $70 a
>pop...

They are much cheaper than that.  Without shopping around, I bought a 
single one for $53 CDN which is about $35 USD.  In reasonable quantity they 
are about $30 each for the 30 gig version.

         ---Mike



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message