[ale] Good cheap tape drive? (was Re: [ale] Full filesystembackup to CD-R)

[Keith R. Watson]

I agree with James. I use an Ecrix VXA tape drive everyday at work. It's 
fast, it's reliable, and less expensive per gigabyte than any other 
solution I have found. Did I mention it's fast?

keith


At 08:57 7/12/2002 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
>I have and use and SWEAR BY the Ecrix drives. They are less than DLT
>drives, and store more than most DAT drives. With an uncompressed media
>size of 33G and a backup/restore rate of 3-6MB/s (depending on
>compression) it is a reasonably priced and sized alternative to the too
>small DAT and Travan and the outrageous DLT.
>
>They have them now in SCSI, Firewire and IDE, internal and external and
>a single/dual drive rack mount autochanger with 15 tape slots.
>
>On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 01:13, Joseph A Knapka wrote:
> > Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > >
> > > I got a Seagate Hornet drive (uses the 10/20GB Travan tapes - I think
> > > TR-5) on SCSI.  It appears to work fine with all the mt and tar
> > > commands.  One thing I find annoying is that premature end-of-tape
> > > conditions is unclean and I don't think that hardware compression works
> > > (you can, of course, use a z in your tar option but I understand that
> > > that can wreak havoc if your tape gets corrupted).  I think the drive
> > > cost about $200 and the media costs about $70.
> >
> > And there's the killer. I have a Travan 8G drive that I never
> > use, because (a) it's too small, and (b) I can't afford the
> > media. The cost per gigabyte for DLT is less than half that
> > of Travan; DAT media is 1/5 the cost of Travan. Wish I could
> > afford to buy a drive :-P
> >
> > (But, holy cow, DLT drives are expensive! I just checked
> > dirtcheapdrives, and they all start over $1K. DAT looks
> > like a better deal all around, for home/small business
> > use, anyhow.)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > -- Joe
> >
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Keith R. Watson                        GTRI/ITD
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