From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun May 19 07:58:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA00577 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 19 May 1996 07:58:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA00563; Sun, 19 May 1996 07:58:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id AAA19139; Mon, 20 May 1996 00:40:51 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605191510.AAA19139@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Looking for help selecting tape device To: rich@lamprey.utmb.edu Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 00:40:51 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, richard@pegasus.com, michaelv@HeadCandy.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199605191408.JAA04637@richc.isdn.bcm.tmc.edu> from "Rich Murphey" at May 19, 96 09:08:16 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Rich Murphey stands accused of saying: > |Almost certainly refurb. The 8200 is fine as long as you're _very_ > |kind and loving. If anything breaks, it's a throwaway. > | > |I don't consider it to be a very good buy these days, unless you're > |into picking them up at auctions for ~$50 each. > > I've got a wangdat 3200 (4Gb w/compression) that can > now be had for about $400 used. It started eating > tapes after 1.5 years and the factory (Rexon) wanted > $300 to fix it. That's pretty close to being throwaway > too. Exabyte have a fixed-price repair policy here. The fixed price for the EXB-8200 is AUD$800. Third-part repairers aren't significantly cheaper - I have a dead 'un here that required a new CD board. AUD$700. I swapped it for one out of an auction unit with stuffed mechanicals, but that's no way to maintain a vital unit. > I'm sure it will fail again in less than a year and I'm > just not sure whether to go with an HP DAT drive next. > HP only has a year warranty as far as I know. I'd > probably get a HP C1533A from Rod if I had it to do > over again, but I wish there were something that lasted > longer. Rich If you want a long-term backup unit, look at a CD-R or a MOD. *laugh*. We're having a good run (so far at any rate) with the Sony DAT units. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[