iomega tape drive

[Vu Pham]

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 11:05 -0600, Stuart Biggerstaff wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. I think I am going to stick with DAT drives. I have DAT drives
for all servers here. I just tried to look for a cheap one for a test
server. 

Vu
> 
> 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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