iomega tape drive

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

I won't entirely agree with that, but the REV seems to be the worst 
of both worlds, at least in terms of costs.  An external hard drive 
would cost only a little more than a REV disk, and completely 
eliminate the cost of the "drive".  Travan tapes cost about as much 
as the REV disks, but the drives are cheaper.  DAT drives cost more 
(but not that much more), but the tapes are quite cheap.

I suppose the REV has the advantage of being faster than tape, and 
the cartridges (like tapes) would be more compact to store than a 
bunch of external hard drives.  But it has the disadvantage of being 
dependent on a single vendor.

At 06:47 AM 11/28/2006, Man-wai CHANG wrote:

> > Yes, it is REV drive. I found two of them at Newegg; one with SATA
> > interface and the other SCSI. Both have capacity of 90Gb which is good
> > for my server.
> >
> > Do you know if I can tar to this drive ?
>
>Harddisks are cheaper, faster, and easier to store. Forget about tapes.. :)
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