Per my message the type is DDS-2 which means 4mm DAT DDS-2 a DDS-1 will only
get 1.2 gigs per 90 m tape but DDS2 will get 2 gigs native and 4 gigs native
on the larger tapes 112,160 etc The brand is almost irelevent since its SCSI
dat, the one I use is a Digital tlz07 4/8 gig native you can search price
watch for them Quantum also made dats and of course Exobyte.
good luck
Ned
Rudy Zijlstra wrote:
> Pray tell me brand and type. Knowing that I can search for it over here.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rudy
>
> Ned Williams wrote:
>
> > Erik,
> >
> > One question...WHY...floppy tape that is. You can get scsi dats
> > these days for 120 bucks,tapes are 4.99 if you get a DDS-2 drive it will
> > back up 4 gigs uncompressed(ie twice that of most ftape drives) and 8
> > gigs at 2:1 hardware compression. Not to mention SCSI is lightyears
> > faster. If your working on a small to mid sized business backup I would
> > go with SCSI. Especially since I'm in the middle of installaling an
> > ATL P3000 here at work(16 dlt 7000,326 cartridges)
> >
> > Ned Williams
> > IMS Health - Strategic Technologies
