On 11/13/2002 08:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tape drives don't care what kind of device is feeding them the data, so IDE or SCSI is irrelevant. Or were you asking if the tape drive was IDE or SCSI? If so, then i'd put my money on a SCSI tape drive.CDRW's have a habit of getting left out around here. Then the cats walk over them, they get really dusty, etc., and I lose data. Can you recommend a tape drive? Oh, and is that for IDE or SCSI? If IDE, might a tape drive work on a RAID controller? I'm out of spots on the standard, non-RAID IDE, but have room for another 5 devices on the Highpoint 374.
You can't plug a tape drive into a RAID controller, unless you want the slowest RAID array in creation. As for good tape drives, HP makes some nice ones, so does SONY. DDS3 or DDS4 drives should be in your budget. There's also AIT, but i think they're a bit more expensive. And if you really want to splurge (like $600 and up) there's Ecrix, who make some of the best, most dependable tapes & drives in the undustry (and they offer excellent Linux support too).
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