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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!nntp.uio.no!nntp.uib.no!nntp-bergen.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!not-for-mail From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tape drive for 'dump' backup Date: 13 Jul 1996 14:12:05 GMT Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4s8arl$a5u@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <4rom3i$g4q@decaxp.HARVARD.EDU> <DuGM9t.9I4@world.std.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trane.uninett.no In-reply-to: dfisk@world.std.com's message of Sat, 13 Jul 1996 02:15:28 GMT [David Fisk] | If you are going to be using a LOT of tapes, then a DAT drive may | be cheaper in the long run because of the media costs. But... | | That being said, I recently picked up a Conner (now Seagate) TapeStor TSM4000R | SCSI QIC MiniCart drive for less than half the price of a DAT. It holds 2G | native on a QIC-3080XLF QIC Wide tape. I bought it primarily for my Win95 | system but I do have FreeBSD installed for testing. I can confirm that the 4000 works fine under FreeBSD. The only thing I don't like about it is the cost of the tapes. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no