Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 17:53:37 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Blackshare, Ray" <BlackshR@fleishman.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape drive Message-ID: <19990129175337.D8473@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <951B30EE47A7D2118D4000A0C9EA3573042837@STLEXGSRV01>; from Blackshare, Ray on Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 09:27:18AM -0600 References: <951B30EE47A7D2118D4000A0C9EA3573042837@STLEXGSRV01>
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On Thursday, 28 January 1999 at 9:27:18 -0600, Blackshare, Ray wrote: > Looking for specs. on a tape drive that FreeBSD supports. Vendors (Exabyte, > HP etc) won't claim (guarantee) that their product is supported by FreeBSD. > Am considering an Exabyte SCSI internal 8mm drive model # 8700 or Eliant > 820. Can anyone recommend a good tape drive with minimum 4G back up, more > capacity compressed? I think the only good ones are DLTs, which cost an arm and a leg. DDS and Exabyte are just plain too unreliable, though they're getting better. For daily backups, you might consider a small number of large IDE drives. They'll be fractionally more expensive in the short term, but cheaper in the long run, and they'll certainly back up faster. 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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