Tape drives

[Andrew Mathews]

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Mike Reinehr wrote:
| I've been using DAT DDS-3 for the past four years with good results. Of the
| two units that I have, a Tecmar WangDAT 9300 and an HP Surestore DAT24, the
| Tecmar is my favorite, but Tecmar is out of business now. Both have been
| reliable, and you couldn't go wrong with HP. (I do incremental backups of 3 -
| 5 GB's four nights a week, with a full 18GB or so weekly backup.)
|
| DDS-3 has a 12GB native capacity, or approx. 24GB with compression, so it's
| on the low side of your requirement. The next generation, DDS-4, has 20/40 GB
| capacity.
|
| I'm considering a Seagate Scorpion 40 DAT (DDS-4) for my next tape drive.
| Does anyone have any experience with Seagate tape drives?
|
| cmr
|

Yeah, I have a couple of them personally and about 50 in the field. No
complaints at all.


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