18 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-hardwareRe: Strong opinions, anyone?| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Rob Schofield | Jun 30, 1998 12:40 am | |
| Richard Foulk | Jun 30, 1998 2:13 am | |
| Greg Lehey | Jun 30, 1998 2:20 am | |
| Nick Hibma | Jun 30, 1998 2:54 am | |
| Guido Kollerie | Jun 30, 1998 4:02 am | |
| Louis A. Mamakos | Jun 30, 1998 5:51 am | |
| Richard Foulk | Jun 30, 1998 11:26 am | |
| Mike Smith | Jun 30, 1998 12:41 pm | |
| Jin Guojun (ITG staff) | Jun 30, 1998 1:09 pm | |
| Richard Foulk | Jun 30, 1998 1:41 pm | |
| Mike Smith | Jun 30, 1998 1:42 pm | |
| Greg Lehey | Jun 30, 1998 4:31 pm | |
| Richard Foulk | Jun 30, 1998 6:16 pm | |
| Dan Strick | Jun 30, 1998 7:43 pm | |
| Mike Tancsa | Jun 30, 1998 9:08 pm | |
| Richard Foulk | Jun 30, 1998 9:12 pm | |
| Stephen McKay | Jul 1, 1998 2:53 am | |
| Ron 'The Insane One' Rosson | Jul 1, 1998 7:01 am |
| Subject: | Re: Strong opinions, anyone? | |
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| From: | Nick Hibma (nick...@jrc.it) | |
| Date: | Jun 30, 1998 2:54:36 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-hardware | |
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998 rich...@pegasus.com wrote:
> } > } On the following bits of kit: > } > } Tandberg TDC 4220 2.0 G Tape streamer > } Exabyte EXB-8200TS 2.5 G Tape streamer > } Fujitsu M295X 4.5 G Disk > } > } Any opinions? > > The Exabyte 8200's are cheap, reliable and have the lowest media cost > of just about any backup device. > > A great deal.
Exabyte is a good deal, remote sensing people are using them on a daily basis here. They are using tapes like others were using floppies a few years ago.
You might want to check the firmware though. We had here a number of odd drives in a EXB-120 juke. It was said that it was the combination that made it behave strangely, but I had problems hooking the thing up to a Sparc20.
EXB 8505 are _very_ reliable though. Also, you will be able to read a tape written on one driver on another, which is an advantage.
Nick
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