> I've come into some (old, used) SCSI hardware, so I've upgraded one of
> my Linux boxes (the home network server) from a small IDE drive to a
> somewhat-less-small SCSI drive.
> So, now that I've got SCSI, I'm wondering if any of you can suggestan
> inexpensive SCSI tape drive that I can use to back up the network. The
> cheaper (price-wise) the better, as long as its reasonably fast and not
> junk! To do that reasonably well it needs to be at least 5 gigs (without
> weird windoze-specific software compression--hardware compression is
> fine with me) preferably more, and capable of working with an Adaptec
> 1542c interface card. Either internal or external will work for me.
The cheapest drives I've seen around that approach 5Gb are 4mm DAT drives, I
got one of Onsale.com for about $120 (external) and use it exclusively with
Linux. Capacity raw is about 2Gb, so you get more with compression, speed is
quite good. One thing to keep in mind is the cost of the tapes, I can get 4mm
tapes at Office Depot for $4.99, while tapes for Travan drives and QIC tapes
cat run into the low twenties. And a tape drive is useless without tapes.
