[ILUG] Cheap large capacity tape drives

[Wesley Darlington]

Hi,

On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 12:12:25AM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> 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.

I've never heard somebody call DLTs cheap before. ;-)

How about one of those onstream 25/50GB jobbies? Cclcomputers (.co.uk)
did them last I looked.

Me, I think the best way of transporting tens of gigabytes of data from
A to B is a laptop. ;-)

All the best,
Wesley.