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You're absolutely correct. The typo daemon was visiting. The storage
capacity is indeed 50 GB.
Allan
At 10:13 PM 10/29/2000, David Wieringa wrote:
>I read this earlier and it left me a bit confused. I haven't used tape in
>a few years, but I couldn't imagine anyone spending time fussing with a
>tape for 50MB or less.
>
>I just browsed the provided link and noted that the tapes store upto 50 GB
>(gigabytes) instead of MB.
>
>Based on Allan's history of contributions, I'm sure this was just a
>typo. I just thought I'd mention it for those unfamiliar with tape drives.
>
>At 02:38 PM 10/29/2000 -0500, Allan Kaminsky wrote:
>>I use and like the Onstream drives. They're reliable and very fast.
>>Excellent support from the company.
>>
>>They come in various sizes up to 50 MB (compressed) per cartridge.
>>
>>I'd recommend the SC50 since it has hardware compression and is
>>significantly faster than the uncompressed versions. Using software
>>compression is very slow, and I wouldn't recommend that. I have an
>>uncompressed 50 MB model (the SC50 wasn't available when I bought it) and
>>it's quite fast (on the order of 80 - 100 MB per minute). The SC50 is
>>even faster.
>>
>>It comes with free software which is pretty good or you can use Windows
>>backup. There are also third party backup applications, with which I have
>>no experience.
>>
>>Check out their web site:
>>
>>http://www.onstream.com/
>>
>>It pays to shop around as the street price will be lower than MSRP.
>>Almost everyone has these (they're very popular), so they're easy to find.
>>
>>Allan
>>
>>At 02:20 PM 10/29/2000, ztrader wrote:
>>>I have a pair of 8 Gig HP Colorado tape drives that I've used for some
>>>time. One has quit entirely, and the other is getting quite
>>>unreliable. HP suggests 'discarding them' - can't be fixed.
>>>
>>>I have about 12 Gigs on the computer with the tape drive, and about 20
>>>Gigs on the local net. I'd appreciate any suggestions for a 20-30 Gig
>>>tape drive and good backup software.
>>>
>>>Don't want to clutter the list - please reply direct (unless you have
>>>a super solution all would like to hear :-).
>>>
>>>TIA,
>>>
>>>ztrader
>
>david_wieringa@xxxxxxxx
>Software Engineer (contractor)
>Scottsdale, AZ / Grand Rapids, MI
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