What tape drive would you recommend?

[Jeffrey Watts]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Bradley Miller wrote:

> I'm looking for a tape drive to do backups on my Linux box for it and
> my network.  What drive would you recommend?  I'm just going to be
> backing up the data -- if anything blows chunks it'll get restarted
> from scratch.

If you want cheap and _incredibly_ noisy, get Travan.

If you want silent operation, and are willing to pay some $$$, get DAT or
DLT.  Note that typically DAT/DLT drives are higher-end, so they may be
more reliable.

You can get DAT drives cheap sometimes at Surplus Exchange.  I've
personally bought 2 of them there for $10 each.

J.

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