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In article <1993Dec5.205740.2900@leland.Stanford.EDU> 
milli@leland.Stanford.EDU (Manish Malhotra) writes:
>1) Is there a good magazine article describing tape backups i.e.
>   what software to buy, what hardware is compatible with my pc,
>   the benefits of internal vs external?

Hmmm...no magazine comes to mind.  Software (if you buy a good drive) comes 
with it, though some people (for reasons that escape me) like Norton Backup or 
CP Backup.  Internal is cheaper and easier to install.  External allows you to 
use one drive on several machines.

>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.

>3)  I already have a few of the normal (big) data cartridges.  Is it better
>   for me to go to the mini-cartridge format?  

It's the same argument for: Should I stick with my 360K or get a 1.44M 
drive???  Do you want to be compatible with the rest (or most of the rest) of 
the industry, and/or do you NEED the added capacity that a 250M CMS system 
will give you???

L8r.
Greg

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.

HP/PA 720 HPUX 9.01 64Meg RAM -> 10 sec

HP/PA 735 HPUX 9.01 64Meg RAM ->  5 sec

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: 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.


That's because they have multiple tracks so they only read one track at 
each pass and then goes backwards while reading/writing another track and 
so on.