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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!surfnet.nl!sun4nl!charon.cvi.ns.nl!Utrecht.NL.net!news.iaf.nl!news.es.iaf.nl!yedi!wilko From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Subject: Re: whats a good external SCSI tape? Organization: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands Message-ID: <Dzn5KB.wB@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <DzHp5B.6Bt.G.nanguo@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> <54dhae$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 19:45:47 GMT Lines: 30 j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au (Robert Chalmers) wrote: >> What's a good EXTERNAL scsi tape drive to use with 2.2 snapshot? >> (in a 1542 controller) >Depends on the amount of money you wanna spend. For not much money >(but only limited space), even an aged Archive Viper 150 might make a >good tape drive. For larger capacity and more money, HP DAT or >Tandberg 2.5 GB QIC are fine (the latter is for those like me who find >helical scan to be inherently horrible :). Helical SCAN is horrible.. I agree with the Tandberg 2.5G, I have one here that works fine. But then again, I picked it up for $ 3 :-) so it's price/performance cannot be beaten. If you have very large amounts of data consider a second hand DLT tape drive. Keep in mind media for these beasts is quite expensive. >External -- well, get a generic SCSI box then, and mount the drive of >your choice there. Should cost you US$ 100 or less. Take care to use >a quality cable, but alas, they are not cheap. Make sure this external box has a sensible cooling system.. Especially things like Exabyte helical scan units really like to stay cool (especially the tape media itself) Wilko