Adrian Lawrence wrote:
>
> Tim Jones writes:
> >
> > My strong recommendation for low $$, reliable drives is the TR-4 or NS-8
> > ATAPI drives from fine folks like Tecmar, Seagate and Tandberg. The key
> > here is that current customers have called to tell us that Seagate
> > literally tells them that they do not support Linux. My response: DON'T
> > BUY SEAGATE DRIVES.
> >
> > We (EST) work directly with the engineering team at Tecmar and they are
> > VERY supportive of Linux. So, save some $$, get a reliable and fast
> > drive, AND support a vendor that supports Linux: BUY TECMAR!
>
> Tim,
>
> Can I ask why you are recommending NS8 rather than NS20? AFAICS the NS20 drives
> are more cost effective, more recent and faster. Perhaps they are only SCSI
> and that is the point? It was you who drew my attention to NS20 in one of
> your mailings last year, and I ended up with an Aiwa NS20. Can't recommend
> Aiwa support or documentation, but the drive itself seems excellent. Not that
> I have hammered it thus far.
Adrian,
I recommend the NS-8 simply from a cost standpoint. I actually use the
Tecmar NS-20 drives here for our departmental backups. We use the
NS-8's for desktop operations and testing. We just ran some tests on
the latest Tecmar NS-20 firmware and are averaging over 3M/sec writing
to the drive and verifying at over 4M/sec (using BRU, of course).
The purchase decision should be based upon budget and capacity needs.
And, if money is no object, the Tecmar or HP DDS-3 DAT drives definitely
get my vote as favorite technology.
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Tim Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc. http://www.estinc.com/
