I always found Travans to be more trouble than they're worth. I didn't start out this way intentionally - But, I've been using all those old 2 & 3 GB drives leftover from days gone by as backups. Hard drives are so cheap now, I'm thinking about putting one of those removable caddy's in one of my cases just for backup purposes.......
Mike S. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of dfox > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 10:01 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Travan Tape drives > > > > Anyone know any reason why I should NOT go buy a Travan, IDE > ATAPI-base tap= > > e drive and use it for Mandrake? > > Because SCSI based DAT drives work better :). Personally I have not had > a Travan-based drive, but one thing I noticed is that the cost of the > tapes themselves are rather expensive. DATs are cheaper (my dds-4's were > $5 a pop when I got them) and even though the cost of the drive may be > less expensive, if you plan on needing a number of tapes you may be > better off with DAT. > > > Matthew > >
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