[ILUG] Cheap DAT drive

[David Murphy]

Quoting <199910280855.IAA12576 at sced.esoc.esa.de>
by Niall O Broin <nobroin at sced.esoc.esa.de>:

> David Murphy said
> 
> > Scan have a Sony 2GB internal SCSI DAT drive with 5.25" mounting kit
> > and 2 tapes for STG£99 at http://www.scan.co.uk/today.htm
> 
> Nice price, but that drive doesn't do any hardware compression, and when
> you can get probably 16GB of harddisk for £100 . . . backing that up if
> it's even only half full is going to take 3-4 DAT tapes. That said, in a lot
> of cases 2GB is more than adequate for a small cheap server which you might
> have tended to build in the past without any backup because it was cheap and
> nasty - now an extra £100 or so gets you a good backup system.

Clearly, if your backup requirements are serious, you've got the
budget for DLT 8) I'm considering it for home use, as much for moving
data around (a couple of DAT tapes are a lot more portable than a
Zip/Jaz drive) as for backup (although I probably have less than 2GB
of important data at home).

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