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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tape drive suggestions??? Date: 16 Jul 1996 18:37:41 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4sgk15$mq@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4ru18i$mll@mitzi.rsmas.miami.edu> <4s13f4$avo@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : ivan@nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu (Ivan Lima) wrote: : > I'm looking for a reliable, fast and affordable tape backup solution : > for a FreeBSD box. Does anyone have any suggestions ? (The DAT and : > EXABYTE drives I've seen are too expensive). : You don't write about the required size. : *Avoid* floppy tapes. They are ``crap by design''. : If you don't have much money to spend, try to get some used stuff. An : old Archive Viper 150 should not be very expensive these days, but is : rock-solid technology which will most likely run flawlessly yet : another five years. This drive (and the Wangtek ES5150) is available : as either SCSI, or with a separate QIC-02 interface card. While the : latter is not that fine as SCSI, i still think it's a much better : choice than a floppy tape of any kind. (Note that you can also get : extended length 250 MB cartridges for QIC-150 drives. Speaking in : terms of the floppy tape vendors, this would make a ``500 MB'' : solution, implying that your software would compress the data 1:2 : before.) So, anyone wanna buy an Archive Viper 2150S (150Mb) ? It's SCSI and has never given me any problems. You pay the postage up front, get the drive, then pay me £50 ($75). Is that fair ? I'll throw in a pile of tapes too. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....