iomega tape drive

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006, 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.

My experience with Travan drives has been that they're worse than
not having a backup because they provide a false sense of
security, often producing tapes that are worthless.

Given the price of external hard drives, their capacity, and the
ability to quickly get random files from them, I think they're
probably a better alternative for most small-to-medium business
and for most small system users.

>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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