[ale] Good cheap tape drive? (was Re: [ale] Fullfilesystembackup to CD-R)

[James P. Kinney III]

I have and use and SWEAR BY the Ecrix drives. They are less than DLT
drives, and store more than most DAT drives. With an uncompressed media
size of 33G and a backup/restore rate of 3-6MB/s (depending on
compression) it is a reasonably priced and sized alternative to the too
small DAT and Travan and the outrageous DLT. 

They have them now in SCSI, Firewire and IDE, internal and external and
a single/dual drive rack mount autochanger with 15 tape slots.

On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 01:13, Joseph A Knapka wrote:
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > 
> > I got a Seagate Hornet drive (uses the 10/20GB Travan tapes - I think
> > TR-5) on SCSI.  It appears to work fine with all the mt and tar
> > commands.  One thing I find annoying is that premature end-of-tape
> > conditions is unclean and I don't think that hardware compression works
> > (you can, of course, use a z in your tar option but I understand that
> > that can wreak havoc if your tape gets corrupted).  I think the drive
> > cost about $200 and the media costs about $70.
> 
> And there's the killer. I have a Travan 8G drive that I never
> use, because (a) it's too small, and (b) I can't afford the
> media. The cost per gigabyte for DLT is less than half that
> of Travan; DAT media is 1/5 the cost of Travan. Wish I could
> afford to buy a drive :-P
> 
> (But, holy cow, DLT drives are expensive! I just checked
> dirtcheapdrives, and they all start over $1K. DAT looks
> like a better deal all around, for home/small business
> use, anyhow.)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Joe
> 
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