Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 20:15:04 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> To: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DLT or AIT? Message-ID: <199805020115.UAA24819@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> of "Sat, 01 May 1998 16:31:30 %2B0200." <E0yVGqY-0002ji-00@ns.cityip.co.za>
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Johann Visagie writes: > Pardon the slightly off-topic post... > > For high capacity tape backups under FreeBSD, are there any particular > reasons to prefer either DLT or AIT technology? > > I'm currently evaluating a Seagate Sidewinder 50 AIT drive, and I must say it > seems to perform like a charm... I've been very happy over the years with Seagate/Conner/Archive tape drives (but not Conner HD's). Don't have a AIT. Yet. If the AIT drive will use (in addition to the AIT tapes) the very common cheap 8mm digital tapes then the AIT would be an easy choice for me over the DLT. There are lots of backup jobs that "only" require 5G ($6 tape) that might not be done if you had to dig for a $40 tape. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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