Re: Tape Backup Fundamentals

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From: Mike Peele
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1993 03:40

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cotton@vms.ucc.okstate.edu (Greg Cotton) writes:

>In article <1993Dec5.205740.2900@leland.Stanford.EDU> 
>milli@leland.Stanford.EDU (Manish Malhotra) writes:
>>2)  I was looking into getting an internal tape drive, around 250MB.
>>   Have seen some ads.  Do I need to buy separate software and controller
>>   cards for them or is the industry norm to sell the complete package?
>>   e.g. colorado memory systems internal 250 mb drive, conner, etc.

>My personal recommendation is the CMS (Colorado).  It has a good price, 
>EXCELLENT software, good compatability, and an overall good reputation for 
>being a quality drive.

>L8r.
>Greg
I wouldn't go saying thatthe Colorado systems give 250 meg.  They don't, 
period.  They DO have compression though.  In my experience, they seem to 
hold about 140-180 MB.  The drives are also noisy, slow, and the tapes 
get VERY hot in normal use.  Also, they seem to go forward and backward 
during a restore, I don't understand this.

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