Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 17:47:00 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OK, Let's phrase it a different way... Message-ID: <199702130047.RAA04530@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970212081003.15155A-100000@titan.cs.mci.com> from "Thomas S. Traylor" at Feb 12, 97 08:15:12 am
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> Going on what you said about going scsi - I recently saw an ad for a new
> portable tape drive called the eagle TR-4 ($399.00) from Exabyte. The ad
> only mentions that TR-3 ($219.00) comes with a controller card but doesn't
> mention whether it's scsi or not. The only other scsi tape backups I've
> seen are in the $700 to $1000 dollar range which hurts alot more that
> trying to get a QIC 40/80 to work.
Corporate Systems Center sells a lot of past-generation devices still
new in the box, including tape drives. A recent perusal of their tape
listing reveals:
[http://www.corpsys.com/txt/NT.html]
P/N Description Price 1 Price 10
----------------------------------------------------------------
AD1C Archive DDS-1 2/4GB DAT drive 449.00 429.00
New, 90 day warranty
AD2C Archive DDS-2 4/8GB DAT drive 595.00 579.00
New, 90 day warranty
CTM3200 Conner SCSI 4GB QIC-WIDE tape 139.00 119.00
drive. New, 90 day warranty
CTM3200E Conner SCSI 4GB QIC-WIDE Extrn 239.00 219.00
New, 90 day warranty
CTM3200EXT Conner SCSI 4GB QIC-Wide tape 199.00 179.00
external New, 90 day warranty
Several of these should place a SCSI tape within your reach. The
Conner CTM3200 are TR-3 drives, with a native capacity of 1.6G.
Note that DAT tapes are *much* cheaper than TR-3, if you use more
than a few tapes, DAT will cost less in the long run.
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