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- From: earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle - Gainfully Unemployed)
- Subject: Exabyte 8mm 2.3 Gb drives - any reason to choose one vendor?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.071953.26411@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- Keywords: Exabyte Tecmar Maynard
- Sender: isolar!earle@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV
- Organization: Gainfully unemployed
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 07:19:53 GMT
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- Well, now that I blew chunks and let my US $1400 Exabyte EXB-8500ST get away ):
- I can still pick up a 3rd-party Exabyte 8mm 2.3 Gbyte drive from the same
- place (for only $100 less, *sigh*).
-
- The two units are a "Tecmar THS-2200" and a "Maynard MaynStream 2200HS+".
- The only difference between the two of them, as far as I know, is
-
- - Tecmar is wider & fatter (i.e., power supply alongside tape unit inside box)
- - Maynard is longer & slimmer (i.e., power supply behind drive)
- I have an 800 number for Maynard (-:
-
- Is there any reason to pick one (Tecmar or Maynard) over the other? Especially
- given that each costs the same and neither comes from the original manufacturer
- so things like "warranty" are equally questionable? Not to mention the fact
- that they're all Exabyte drives under the skin, I assume ...
-
- If they're all Exabyte drives under the hood, is this choice a coin flip?
- Let it come down to fatter and shorter vs. longer & slimmer esthetics? (-:
-
- --
- - Greg Earle
- Itinerant Sun Consultant
- isolar!earle@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV
-