Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:36:59 -0600 From: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> To: Michael Searle <searle@longacre.demon.co.uk> Cc: "David W. Alderman" <dave@mmrd.com>, Eric Lee Green <elgreen@iname.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Ericx VXA (Re: onStream?) Message-ID: <19991112223659.5D9A71D7A@bone.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <19991112161515.48117@longacre.demon.co.uk> References: <199911102306.AAA24666@bowtie.nl> <199911102306.AAA24666@bowtie.nl> <99111106460800.32323@ehome.inhouse> <4.2.2.19991111144543.00ad2330@192.2.2.24> <19991112161515.48117@longacre.demon.co.uk>
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On 12 November 1999 at 16:15, Michael Searle <searle@longacre.demon.co.uk> wrote: > I've looked up the Ecrix site and the drive looks very impressive - speed > and reliability better than a DLT-4000 but at DAT price (for the drive, not > the $80 tapes...). Is there anyone using this drive who can give me more > information about it? > Any problems with it? ``It works for me.'' I've had the VXA-1e for a bit over two weeks, and I've done 18 dumps and 4 full restores (all artificial ``make sure we can restore'' activities). Random access seems to work pretty well, too. > Does the 'variable speed' feature reduce the capacity of the tape? (as in > floppy-tapes) No, see the white paper on the web site. Oh, as a nice touch, they send all documentation and their web sites on CD with the drive. > How well does the compression work? (and does it pass through > compressed files or bloat them like the DAT drive mentioned here? At > the quoted 6MB/s, software compression would mean something cack like > LZO on all but the fastest > CPUs.) Beats me. I only have ~21 GB here to back up, so everything easily fits on one tape. Later, -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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