Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 11:57:10 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, Bill Hamilton <bhamil@cmpu.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drive Recommendations? Message-ID: <19981226115710.G12346@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199812241903.NAA01402@n4hhe.ampr.org>; from David Kelly on Thu, Dec 24, 1998 at 01:03:51PM -0600 References: <bhamil@cmpu.net> <199812241903.NAA01402@n4hhe.ampr.org>
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On Thursday, 24 December 1998 at 13:03:51 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > Bill Hamilton writes: >> Related question: Is the Iomega Jaz supported under FreeBSD? >> Wouldn't that be cheaper than most tape drives? >> (Granted, you only have 2gb per cartidge and they are more costly that >> tape.) > > What are Jaz selling for now? $235 for the drive, $100 for each 2G > platter? Just shooting at prices its very easy to spend more on media > than on the drive. I feel uncomfortable if I don't have at least 10 > pieces of media laying around for my backup system. > > IMHO a much better value is the Conner 4326 DDS-2 drive for $399 (2G to > 4G, more if compression works for you) Compression should work on all FreeBSD systems. > on $6 (90M DDS-1) to $12 (120M DDS-2) tapes. Recall that this is now quite an old drive. They were being sold off surplus two years ago. > The Conner 8000 is a newer generation of the Conner (actually Archive > relabled Conner, supported by Seagate) 4326. Performance is the same. I thought that Archive bought Conner and was then bought by Seagate, and that all these drives are quite old. > Saving $20 the Conner 4324 is a 4326 without compression. IMHO spend > the $20. Definitely. You'll save it in tapes pretty quickly. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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