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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:27:23 +0700 (ICT)
From:      Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
To:        kelly@ad1440.net
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tape experience and advice
Message-ID:  <200103120127.IAA09326@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
In-Reply-To: <200103111847.KAA25866@ad1440.net> (message from Sean Kelly on Sun, 11 Mar 2001 10:47:57 -0800)
References:   <200103111847.KAA25866@ad1440.net>

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Sean,

>I had my last DDS drive put down.  It served me fairly
>well for a couple years, and I'll miss it.  But now it's
>time to stop running on "autopilot" and get a new
>backup system.

I agree 100% on that matter, helical is not the best.

two strong and well used technologies ate DLT and QIC/SLR. I went for
the second one as it is even simpler than DLT (much less mechanics in
the drive). At least Tandberg offers anything from 5 to 400GB
(compressed).

Good luck,

Olivier

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