For a year I've been successfully using an internal HP SureStore 24 DDS-3 drive to back up 5 production servers for Dept. of Ag. It's been totally reliable.
And for about six months I've been using an internal Seagate DAT 9SP40-000 to back up 3 production servers. It's been reliable as well. mike On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 17:51, Kirk Strauser wrote: > 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 -- Michael Martinez Linux System Administrator ISTM/CSREES/USDA