My long-suffering DDS-3 drive died today. As in, when I opened the top to see if I could remove an eaten tape, there were mechanism drive gears laying about loose inside it.
I backup 3 Unix and 1 Mac OS X host, for a total of about 60GB. Speed isn't a real issue - the 1.4MB/s of the DAT was fast enough for my needs. Reliability is important (which I suppose is a given in this subject). Price is pretty important - the wife certainly won't consent to any multi-thousand-dollar autoloaders. I prefer to avoid IDE, and the old drive was hanging off an U/W SCSI-3 adapter that's still in perfect shape. Any suggestions for a solid drive for a small LAN? I'm thinking of getting an internal DDS-4 (so I can still use my DDS-3 tapes), but I can start over with an entirely different format if the advantages are sufficient. -- Kirk Strauser
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