[ILUG] Cheap large capacity tape drives

[Niall O Broin]

I'm looking for suggestions for the above. This will mainly be used to move
large quantities of data from point A to point B, (which brings to mind the
old adage that the highest bandwidth connection you could buy was a station
wagon full of tapes) and not for a regular backup scheme (the distinction
being that for a regular backup scheme, there's no real difference in cost
between a cheap tape drive e.g. Travan and an expensive tape drive e.g. DLT,
because the tape cartridges for a cheap tape drive are relatively very
expensive, so the cost of tape drive + enough cartridges is about the same
for either option). So given that, have any of you used the cheapies e.g.
Travans and what do you think of them. Obviously I'd preferr something SCSI
for transfer speed but I think most of the cheapies are IDE or (horror !)
parallel.



Regards,


Niall