Re: [PLUG] Tape Drive Selection

[Jeff Dean <jdean@ieee.org>]

Why not stick with DDS-2?  With 120M tapes you cover your 4GB native 
requirement, and you should be able to find a used autoloader for around 
$250 (I have a SureStore 12000).  Using MTX, the changer works nicely.

At 03:16 PM 1/10/01 -0500, you wrote:
> The tape drive on my company's Linux web server is starting to die, so
> I was wondering what the list's recommendations were for a
> replacement.
>
> Our current drive is a HP SureStore 5000, which is an old SCSI DDS2
> DAT drive. We'd like the new one to be SCSI, fast, and be able to
> backup 4 gig natively at the bare minimum. All that, and we don't want
> to blow the budget.
>
> Has anyone seen or used the VXA-1 from Ecrix? It seems to fit the
> bill, but I'm a little hesitant because there's only a single company
> supporting the format. What are the other alternatives that members of
> the list have experience with?
>
> Thanks!
>
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