Re: DAT Drive for NT4

Richard Lachance ( richard@vircom.com )
Mon, 23 Feb 1998 11:28:55 -0500

At 14:15 2/21/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>Who can recommend a good DAT drive
>>to use under NT4 for making backups?
>
>We use Exabyte 8700 , 8 Gb in no time, very reliable.

Is that a 8mm drive? Does anyone have opinions on 8mm drives vs 4mm
drives? Our last experience with 8mm drives, over 6 years ago, showed very
poor reliability and we're not sure we want to head back down that road...

....But we need a 10GB+ backup device and DDS-3 cartridges are still priced
at $30USD+ each; with our current rotation scheme, that would mean over
$1000USD just in cartridges...

Regards,

Richard.

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