Tom Strickland schrieb:
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> On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:28:24PM +0200, Christoph Sold wrote:
> > [List reply stripped]
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> > Tom Strickland schrieb:
> > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:58:28PM +0200, Christoph Sold wrote:
> > > > Tom Strickland schrieb:
> > > > > We're on the verge of ordering a DDS drive (this week). It'll probably
> > > > > be an HP Surestore - but the question is DDS3 or DDS4? There's the
> > > > > obvious difference in capacity, but beyond that are there any other
> > > > > differences? Speed is an obvious one - any others?
> > > >
> > > > After some near disasters with DDS tapes, I suggest also considering
> > > > DLT1 tapes. Those never failed, even after long storage periods. They
> > > > come even pretty cheap.
> > >
> > > If only! If I was admin for a commercial enterprise, I'd go with DLT
> > > or similar - but as a charity branch we just can't afford it.
> >
> > Huh? This single DLT1 drive has cost less than 4000 Marks -- thats less
> > than $2000. Speaking of cheap, I again suggest looking at DLT1 drives.
> > Designed to compete with DDS drives.
>
> I've just done some sums:
> total for HP SureStore DDS3i, SCSI card, 20 tapes, delivery, VAT: 998.52UKP
> total for HP SureStore DDS4i etc: 1408.71 UKP
> total for HP DLT1, SCSI card, 20 tapes, delivery, VAT: 2441.415
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> Well, unless I'm being wildly ripped off somewhere, it looks as though
> DDS is the only affordable solution. Probably DDS3, I'm afraid. I may
> be able to work something out, but at the moment I don't have the
> funds to be able to chip in myself.
Did you cinsider DLT1 holds 40G uncompressed, compared to 4G for DDS4?
You probably don't need 20 tapes. I can do with 10: 6 daily tapes,
backed up monday through friday, 4 weekly tapes. Should cut the cost in
half.
HTH
-Christoph Sold
