I've installed 7 of these: 5 SCSI and 2 USB. Overall I'd say they work
well. All 7 clients continue to use them. Most the calls I get is about
understanding Retrospect (but that's another discussion). The problems I've
seen with the Onstream include:
- The drive doesn't always see a new
We've been backing up to Onstream's Echo drives (DI30: IDE, 15GB) with mixed
results. I like these drives (price is nice, IDE interface) but lately I've
been wondering about the quality.
We use them here (scsi SC-50 drives) with good results (Macintosh Retro
version 4.3). I have seen oddities
Almost everyone I know hates DAT drives; regardless of the OS or backup
software.
I will only use a technology which has built-in hardware ECC (error
correction) for my backups. As I understand it, this is lacking from the
Onstream drive.
My data is backed up on 8mm (not the old 5 or 7GB
We've been backing up to Onstream's Echo drives (DI30: IDE, 15GB) with mixed
results. I like these drives (price is nice, IDE interface) but lately I've
been wondering about the quality.
Two out of the three we've purchased so far were plagued by bad media errors
(-206) in Retrospect. I tried
