Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 06:40:40 -0700 From: Eric Lee Green <elgreen@iname.com> To: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl>, mjacob@feral.com Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: onStream? Message-ID: <99111106460800.32323@ehome.inhouse> In-Reply-To: <199911102306.AAA24666@bowtie.nl> References: <199911102306.AAA24666@bowtie.nl>
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On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Marc van Kempen wrote: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911101050530.11884-100000@semuta.feral.com>, Matthew > Jacob writes: > >It's not clear that OnStream is the answer here. I lost some of my > >interest in supporting OnStream when they weren't particularly interested > >in doing a changer. Not only is the amount of running around with this Excuse me, but if you need a changer, you need something a bit more, err, substantial than the OnStream. The OnStream is a QIC-type product intended for personal backup. Onstream Corp. isn't in the corporate backup market. > They have 70GB in the picture and are working on bigger drives. Yes, they have 70GB in the picture, though I can't talk about how it works (yet) :-). > The guy I spoke to also claimed that the drives are more reliable than > dat. I'm sorry, but while the OnStream is in all ways the penultimate of QIC technology, it will never have the reliability and speed of helical-scan technology. Besides, if you want reliability, see the Ecrix VXA. These guys demoed at one of the shows where they made a backup tape, stuck it in boiling water, dried it out -- and it restored! My only complaint with the Ecrix nowdays is the same as Matt's complaint about Onstream -- that they don't have a changer. DDS-4 changers, on the other hand, are either on the market or will be on the market soon, though I don't really trust DDS-4 technology all that much (they're trying to stick altogether too much stuff on one little 4mm DAT cartridge, darn it!). -Eric Lee Green eric@estinc.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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