Re: recommend a tape backup solution please

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From: graz0004
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 17:53

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In <3kg5bb$8f7@netnews.upenn.edu>, awertkin@mail.med.upenn.edu (Andrew M. Wertkin) writes:
>I just got the Conner TapeStor 4000 SCSI drive.  The drive costs alittle
>over $500 and it handles 4Gigabytes (compressed).  It is not on my OS/2
>box however, and I don't know if it is supported by any software for
>OS/2.  THe drive does about 50 MByte / minute, which is a hell of alot
>faster than my old Irwin accutrak 250 running off the floppy controller.

The drive is fully support by Back Again/2 Professional under OS/2.
Beware about the 'claimed' speeds - the 54MB/min speed is assuming
2:1 data compression on a machine that can do data compression
that fast.  Without compression, the drive can be expected to do between
24 and 29 meg/min.

Cheers,
Brad

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