Seagate discontinues AIT

I was all set to buy another AIT drive and discovered that Seagate has discontinued them. They no longer list any AIT drives on their web page. I put a call into Seagate Pre-Sales Support and the guy said that they have decided to stop licensing the technology from Sony and instead are focusin

Re: Finally - a cure for DLT

How's performance? The reliability of the tapes is impressive but I'm concerned about the drive's backup performance. Take a look at PC Mag's article on tape drives: . The VXA-1 was pretty much the slowest drive. The fastest dr

Re: DLT autoloaders?

I, too, am in the market for a new tape drive. Here's what I've found: Exabyte M2: 60GB, 12MB/s, $3777 ($80 media) Sony AIT-2: 50GB, 6MB/s, $3289 ($94 media) DLT 8000 : 40GB, 6MB/s, $3915 ($64 media) Sony AIT-1: 35GB, 3MB/s, $1913 ($88 media) VXA-1 : 33GB, 3MB/s, $939 ($67 media) D

Re: DLT autoloaders?

I did include DDS-4 right between the VXA-1 and the Mammoth. I've been disappointed so many times in the past by DDS that I'd likely not consider it again. At 5:57 PM -0400 7/27/00, SK Suh wrote: >At 1:07 AM -0700 07/25/2000, Larry Acosta Wong wrote: >>I, too, am in the ma

RE: VXA drive (was DDS-3 vs DDS-4?)

I've added the two OnStream drives (ADR50 and SC30) in the internal SCSI configurations (wide connector if available). I've listed the pricing I can get to keep the comparison prices consistent. Steve Rothman, the Eliant 820 is an Exabyte drive utilizing an 8mm helical scan tape. The VXA-1 med

RE: Retrospect and OS 9

Jim, To prevent intruders from disturbing the backup server while it's logged in, use the BlackWatch screen saver to password protect your computer. BTW, there's a posting on the BlackWatch web site that says: (8/23/00) A patch for Retrospect (version

RE: Advice requested: tape system

VXA-1 has 65% greater capacity, lower drive cost, but higher media cost. Plus, of course there's that reliability thing. Ecrix boiled a tape, recovered the data; froze a tape; recovered the data. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adam Cohen

RE: Advice requested: tape system

Call my account rep, Skip Heeman at CDW and tell him I sent you and he'll sell you the VXA tapes for $67. Ask for CDW part# 204732. Here's his contact info: Skip Heeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (877) 780-7017 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ben

Re: Really Stop execution dialog box

An indirect solution to your problem would be to install Dan Walkowski's Okey Dokey Pro which "presses the default button in modal dialogs after a time limit." At 11:00 AM -0500 10/23/00, Gary R. Bernstein w