[1679] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: SCSI or ftape?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark F. burgo)
Thu Apr 3 08:57:07 1997
In-Reply-To: <5hur42$5ru$1@server.sae.extern.fh-hannover.de>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 08:41:16 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mark F. burgo" <mfburgo@lrkimball.com>
To: <jojo@sae.extern.fh-hannover.de (Juergen Sauer)>
Cc: submit-linux-dev-scsi@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
You may also look in to the SCSI Travan tape drives. While they are new I have
been using a Seagate STS8000 an 8 Gig scsi travan 4 drive for some time now and
not had a problem.......
marks $0.02 :-)
On 02-Apr-97 Juergen Sauer wrote:
--->Dave Wreski <tel1dvw@is.ups.com> schrieb
--->am Tue, 1 Apr 1997 00:28:29 -0500 (EST) in linux.dev.scsi:
--->
--->DW> Hi all. I landed a little side job setting up a linux and NT network fo
r
--->DW> a company near me. I'm now wondering what kind of backup solution I
--->DW> should offer. They will be backing up inventory data from a NT-based
--->DW> database. I'm not sure of the size of the data, but I don't think it wi
ll
--->DW> be more than 50 megs per day.
--->
--->DW> I'm inclinded to sell them a 1542 and a DDS-2 4 gig backup drive, but th
at
--->DW> could cost near $1000.
--->
--->DW> Should I get the scsi drive, or a simple 3.2 gig travan drive? What do
I
--->DW> need to consider before making a decision?
--->
--->There is only one possible solution: SCSI (QIC or DLT), if a rocksteady
--->backup is wanted.
--->If costs are important, you may be happy with a SCSI QIC drive,
--->those are avaible in 250 MB, 525 MB (antique) and upto 2,x GB.
--->The QIC525 drives are cheap nowadays.
--->
--->A 4mm DDS2 DAT is a little more problematic in case of long term
<snip> of long discussion <snip>
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