From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Nov 11 5:45:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.az.home.com (ha1.rdc1.az.home.com [24.1.240.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 419BD14D95 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 05:45:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from elgreen@iname.com) Received: from ehome.inhouse ([24.9.114.169]) by mail.rdc1.az.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19991111134547.OINS9546.mail.rdc1.az.home.com@ehome.inhouse>; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 05:45:47 -0800 From: Eric Lee Green Organization: Myself @ Home To: Marc van Kempen , mjacob@feral.com Subject: Re: onStream? Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 06:40:40 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199911102306.AAA24666@bowtie.nl> In-Reply-To: <199911102306.AAA24666@bowtie.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99111106460800.32323@ehome.inhouse> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Marc van Kempen wrote: > In message , 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