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Date:      Thu, 2 Jan 1997 12:22:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug Russell <drussell@internode.net>
To:        dave@persprog.com
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Are HP DAT drives more unreliable than others?
Message-ID:  <1.5.4.16.19970102132433.08ef3304@internode.net>

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At 02:11 PM 12/31/96 -0800, you wrote:

>	who makes high capacity QIC drives anymore?
>	archive made several models.  they were bought by
>	conner and that seemed to end their production of
>	high capacity QIC drives.

Seagate, which bought Conner/Archive makes several different models, as do
several other companies.  Specifically, the new TR4 drive, with 4 gigs
uncompressed storage, available in either IDE or SCSI versions looks
interesting.  And they aren't all that expensive, either.  (Although, I
haven't seen prices for the tapes yet.)

I've got a slightly older Conner QIC-3080 drive, the SCSI version.  Storage
capacity is 2.0 gigs uncompressed per tape, and the tapes are about $45
Canadian$, or at least that's what Sony tapes cost at the last place I got them.

Backup speed is quite fast.  The drive tops out at 54-60 Megs/minute.

Later......                                             <Doug>





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