Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 01:40:11 -0600 From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>, Noor Dawod <noor@comrax.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SCSI tape back that works under FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011120014009.A794@northernbrewer.com> In-Reply-To: <20011120121857.O76318@monorchid.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 12:18:57PM %2B1030 References: <OF7F945520.F850FFD8-ONC1256B09.007D8B2D@use.ch> <002f01c17162$7d190550$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120120938.M76318@monorchid.lemis.com> <007f01c17164$a3284c40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120121857.O76318@monorchid.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey (grog@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > What would you replace them with? It's a question of cost. There are > very few reliable tape drives. But if disks were anywhere near as > unreliable as tapes, people would be up in arms. Given the supposed unreliability of tape drives, this may not be wise, but I bought a couple of cheap DLT drives on eBay. You can get an external DLT4000 for about $250. No warrantee, caveat emptor, whatever. It's $250 for a 40 Gig tape drive (about $500 for a 70 gig). If it breaks you can throw it away and buy another one. Compared to the DDS-2 drives I've owned, these DLT drives seem to be build like Volvos: they're big, heavy bricks. And, you know, maybe you don't want your tape drives miniaturized, feeding tape through hairpin turns. I'm betting that bigger is better. -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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