Re: Tape Drive Recommendation

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 12:27 PM 8/11/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
>I am looking into purchasing a tape drive for my Red Hat 6.0 linux system,
>Can anyone recommend a good tape drive for a low end web server with 4GB
>of data.

I'm happy so far with the Seagate ST28000-NC.  It's SCSI with hardware
compression and backs up my ~2GB in 35 minutes.  I think you can get faster
but this is fast enough for me.  The drive wasn't cheap and the cartridges
aren't either.  But I think SCSI is worth it and the DAT drives were even
more pricey.  I really like SCSI but if my machine didn't already have a
SCSI system, I might go with an IDE or parallel port solution.

-Alan
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