For a year I've been successfully using an internal HP SureStore 24
DDS-3 drive to back up 5 production servers for Dept. of Ag. It's been
totally reliable.
And for about six months I've been using an internal Seagate DAT
9SP40-000 to back up 3 production servers. It's been reliable as well.
My long-suffering DDS-3 drive died today. As in, when I opened the top to
see if I could remove an eaten tape, there were mechanism drive gears laying
about loose inside it.
I backup 3 Unix and 1 Mac OS X host, for a total of about 60GB. Speed isn't
a real issue - the 1.4MB/s of the DAT was
