VXA-1 has 65% greater capacity, lower drive cost, but higher media cost.
Plus, of course there's that reliability thing. Ecrix boiled a tape,
recovered the data; froze a tape; recovered the data.
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Of Adam Cohen
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 8:32 AM
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Subject: RE: Advice requested: tape system
Is the VXA-1 that much better than DDS 4?
Adam Cohen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
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Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 7:10 AM
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Subject: Re: Advice requested: tape system
>However our company has grown some over time and the use of CD-R is no
longer
>a real option as it takes too long to do a full backup of the 30GB or so of
>data on the LAN.
I like VXA. Tapes hold 33 MB before compression, although I haven't hit
that level on my home network -- probably due to slow 6100s and Quadras
not able to send data fast enough. Cost for the drive ranges from $600 to
$1200+, depending on the deal you manage to find. Tapes are $80 each.
At work, we use AIT, which has a native capacity of 25 GB and averages
about 35 GB compressed. AIT seems to work better backing up older, slower
Macs on the network. I've never run *under* the tapes rated capacity, as
I did with my first VXA tape at home. Cost of drives is much higher
($2000+). Tapes are about $80, also.
I have no experience with DLT.
Dan Knight, IS manager/webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Baker Book House Company <http://www.bakerbooks.com>
6030 East Fulton 616-676-9185 x146
Ada, Michigan 49301 fax 616-676-9573
Macs for productivity, Unix for stability, Windows for solitaire
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