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From: pmh@pilhuhn.de (Patrick M.Hausen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Backing up the whole 9 yards...???
Date: 24 Aug 1995 19:56:48 +0200
Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn
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peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>DAT is good enough and cheap enough for most people's home systems. I wouldn't
>mess with the Colorado type systems. The ones that are big enough to be worth
>messing with cost as much as a cheap DAT.
Nobody outside Europe seems to consider QIC tape drives a good choice ...
Tandberg Data drives are quite common with our customers and they're
- cheaper than DAT, unless you need a lot of cartridges
- more reliable
- backwards compatible to QIC24 and QIC150
If you want to go for an SCSI tape drive I would strongly recommend
thinking about QIC. They hold up to 5 GB (with compression, 2.5 without)
nowadays and are simply rock solid.
Personally I don't like helical scan tapes at all, because of greater
tape wear and complicated (and therefore error-prone) mechanics.
DAT was our standard offer for backing up Netware servers and we
get a lot of worn drives back.
Of course this is everyday use, and most of our customers don't care
about cleaning, but ... QIC drives just continue to work for years.
I got the 1GB model for my homebox for less than DM 1000,- and it
really was plug and play. The cartridges are about twice as expensive
as DAT tapes.
The biggest drawback (IMHO) is, QIC cartridges don't fit in your pocket
that well, and, if you have a lot to back up, there are no affordable
auto-change drives, but that's beyond the needs of a home system.
Just my personal opinion, I have no relation to Tandberg besides being
a happy customer.
Paddy
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