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Rewritable CD is fairly slow.....
the CD disks are under $1 now.....
best to go with a regular CD writer.....at least 4x speed !!!
I heard Plextor came out with an 8X burner......wow, that is fast.
Also, I have the onstream drive for network backup....they are fast, but not
as fast as a CD burner.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JERRY AND CORA ROSS [mailto:jerryandcora@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 1:55 PM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Tape backup for 18Gb drive?
>
>
> Has anyone tried using rewritable cd for backup?
> Is it feasible?
> Jerry R
>
> Allan Kaminsky wrote:
> >
> > Look at OnStream:
> >
> > http://www.onstream.com/
> >
> > They have 30GB, 50 GB and 70 GB SCSI tape drives. They're relatively
> > inexpensive and very fast. Their first round of software was
> not very good,
> > but the latest release is significantly improved. They say
> backup rates can
> > be as high as 7 GB per hour. I tend to see about 5-6, which isn't too
> > shabby. It slows down if you use compression (which is done in
> software),
> > but given the size of the tape cartridges, there really isn't
> much need to
> > do that for most systems.
> >
> > Allan
> >
> > At 10:36 AM 1/13/00 , Neal Hughes wrote:
> >
> > >I have some 18Gb drives, can any traders recommend a tape
> > >manufacturer/model to back up a drive that size?
> > >
> > >DAT & SCSI is fine, or regular old IDE will do too.
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >-Neal.
> > >
> > >-----------------
> > >Neal on the 'net.
> > >Trade well. Train hard.
> > >http://www.halcyon.com/neal/
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> .oİş°¨¨°şİ>>[ JERRY ROSS ]<<İş°¨¨°şİo.
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