[ale] Consensus on best deal for a scsi DAT->10Gig ?

[Chuck Mattern]

> I have a  Seagate Hornet SCSI tape drive that uses 10GB (20GB compressed 
> but I still can't figure out how to invoke hardware compression) Travan 
> TR-5 tapes.  The drive was in the ~$200 range (I don't recall exactly). 
>  The tapes are pretty expensive ($70-80?).  If you get something like 
> that, don't think you can buy smaller tapes to save money - they won't 
> work.  This drive can take smaller TR-4 tapes but read-only.  Go figure.

There is yet another Travan format coming out and it too will handle the 
previous version in read-only mode.  I will never again buy a Travan.  If you 
look at the cost of the media and plan to do more than just weekly backups 
DDS-3 is the best bet IMHO.
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