Dear All; Please respond to me privately as this is (SOT Sorta Off Topic). My Onstream SC30 tape backup finally died and am looking at spending around $400 - $700 to get a replacement.
What do people use and recommend. Things I 've looked at so far are Seagate Taravan 40/20GB Hornet ATAPI, and or Onstream ADR2.60 U2 SCSI or EDIE. With ADR and Taravan you always get half of the rated maximum capacity. A 40GB Taravan tape with get you about 20GB of real data backup. Same with ADR. Is DAT The same way? It really annoys me that they rate them at 2:1 compression. The only way to get that is to rig the machince for it in my opinion. The Seagate is like $370 for the RY server model(240mb/min), you get Tapeware XE and Disaster ecovery with that. Same with Onstream ADR2 which is like $390 for the EIDE model and $640 for the U2 SCSI model(4MB/sec Native and 8MB/sec compressed). Both claim linux compatiblity and Onstream states that it has built in kernel support for both EIDE and SCSI ADR2 units in all 2.4 or higher kernels. One advantage to the Onstream is that my ADR 30 tapes are backward compatible to a degree. Any advice would be welcome Sincerely Brian _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
