From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Nov 12 14:37:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [209.98.143.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78ED514D08 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 14:37:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: from bone.nectar.com (bone.nectar.com [10.0.0.105]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8021D2438F2; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:35:29 -0600 (CST) Received: from bone.nectar.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bone.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D9A71D7A; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:36:59 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 X-Exmh-Isig-CompType: repl X-Exmh-Isig-Folder: mlist/freebsd/hardware X-PGP-RSAfprint: 00 F9 E6 A2 C5 4D 0A 76 26 8B 8B 57 73 D0 DE EE X-PGP-RSAkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-rsa.txt X-PGP-DSSfprint: AB2F 8D71 A4F4 467D 352E 8A41 5D79 22E4 71A2 8C73 X-PGP-DHfprint: 2D50 12E5 AB38 60BA AF4B 0778 7242 4460 1C32 F6B1 X-PGP-DH-DSSkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-dh-dss.txt From: Jacques Vidrine To: Michael Searle Cc: "David W. Alderman" , Eric Lee Green , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Subject: Ericx VXA (Re: onStream?) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:36:59 -0600 Message-Id: <19991112223659.5D9A71D7A@bone.nectar.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 12 November 1999 at 16:15, Michael Searle 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