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
