I have two fully working 4MM DDS2 DAT drives, both SCSI. Both came from
machines that I picked up used. Several companies right now sell used
servers and workstations. One of those tape drives came in a Compaq
Proliant 1500, the other came in a Dell PowerEdge 4100/200.
This seems to me to be the single best way to obtain hardware like that.
The compaq came with 3 x 2.1 GB drives, and 2 x 4.3 GB drives. All of
which I now have in my Linux machine.
For the price of the used server, you couldn't purchase half of the
hardware in them.
The place i got mine was CDIComputers. www.cdicomputers.com. Check it
out, maybe you'll find just what you need.
Thanks
> On Saturday 06 January 2001 20:33, you wrote:
> > I am in the market to get an IDE tape drive (no loot for SCSI) for backup
> > and was wondering if anyone had used the Seagate travan 20 and what you
> > think of it for small networks.
>
> I got an HP surestore DAT 4mm drive for not all that much a few years ago.
>
> Personally, it depends on how much backups you're planning on doing, but
> usually SCSI turns out to be cheaper in the long run. The Travan tapes tend
> to be rather expensive. On the other hand, one can get the 4mm tapes for
> about 5-6 dollars a piece.
>
>
>
> > Andy
>
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