From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Nov 11 6:10:46 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 C5C4414D11 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 06:10:43 -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 <19991111141042.ONAX9546.mail.rdc1.az.home.com@ehome.inhouse>; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 06:10:42 -0800 From: Eric Lee Green Organization: Myself @ Home To: Michael Searle , mjacob@feral.com, Marc van Kempen Subject: Re: onStream? Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 07:05:49 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199911102306.AAA24666@bowtie.nl> <19991111005138.43321@longacre.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19991111005138.43321@longacre.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99111107110301.32323@ehome.inhouse> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Michael Searle wrote: > So DATs are unreliable. They also cost 3 times more than the OnStream. And the tapes are half the cost. Depending upon how much data you back up, a DAT changer could very well be cheaper than the OnStream in a corporate backup environment with a decent tape rotation. > Is the OnStream more reliable than a Travan? Because that is the only drive > of comparable price and capacity that I've seen. INFINITELY so. We put tape drives to the torture test in the EST testing lab, and TR-5/NS20 drives are PATHETIC reliability-wise, approximately 30% of the tapes we wrote could not be read back :-(. The OnStream IDE under Linux, by contrast, has been 100% reliable in our testing (you can get those drivers, for Linux, at our FTP site at ftp.estinc.com ). It's a shame that it looks like I'll have to be booting down into Linux to back up my FreeBSD machine (since I am buying one of those OnStream drives for my own personal use here at home). Especially since FreeBSD device nodes don't back up right under Linux :-(. (Due to brain damage on the Linux side of things, BTW -- not enough space fin their device struct for the longer FreeBSD major/minor numbers). -- Eric Lee Green eric@estinc.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message