Also Sprach Matteo Centonza:
> Hi,
>
> take a look at Tandberg SLR series at www.tandberg.com.
> It's very reliable, and linux ``Compatible'' (as they say).
>
> AFAIK, _not_ so cheap is the only drawback.
>
> -m
>
But the Tandberg SLR 50 (50 GB native) is the least expensive
drive for under $2K that backs up 50 GB I think.
The Benchmark DLT1 does 40GB for about $400 less and can use earlier
DLT media. I don't know if the linear tape drives have much advantage
over the helical tape drives at the under $2k price point - the SLRs
and DLT1s only do 3MB/s, just like AIT-1, Mammoth-1 and Ecrix, and the
8mm formats are smaller so you can fit more into autoloaders and
jukeboxes.
Linear tape drives are suppose to be more resistant to environmental
circumstance - i.e. dust, smoke - and the drives are suppose to last
longer since the heads are fixed. On the other hand, the Ecrix packet
write technology helps to overcome some of these problems for 8mm formats.
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