Having definitely abandoned the possibility of a professional use of the
ditto max tape drive (41 hours for filling a 5/10GB tape is not
acceptable!), I'm now looking at the market of backup units capable of
almost
5BG (not compressed) capacity.
I'm evaluating the following products:
- HP Colorado (suitable in 5-8-14-20 GB format) IDE travan tape drive
- the new DVD-RAM drives (such as SD-W1101 and SD-W1111 from Toshiba)
The latter solution is, according to me, very interesting.
Do anyone known something about the compatibility (and affidability) of
these solutions with
Linux? Are them expected to work fine without any non-standard support, as
far as they are standard IDE or SCSI devices? I hope this, but unfortunately
it's impossible to try them before buying... and I'd like to avoid another
"ditto max" experience.
Regards
Fabio Lissandrini
