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- From: ewilson@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Eliot Wilson)
- Subject: Re: Looking for suggestions for Tape Backup?
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- Organization: University of Cincinnati
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 13:08:21 GMT
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- In article <1254@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu> ed@balrog.aecom.yu.edu (Ed Geraghty) writes:
- >
- >Happy New Year!!!!! (almost :) )
- > By the time this gets to some it will be a new year
- >
- >Greetings All,
- >
- > We are currently looking to purchase a 8mm backup tape drive for our site.
- >I was perusing through the AIX FAQ for possible suggestions and saw that
- >only IBM's tape drive will work. We are looking to backup about 1.5 Gig on
- >Suns and Rs6k. I have to check but I could have sworn that I saw a 8mm
- >advertised for IBM and SUNs is the FAQ correct? Anybody have any suggestions
- >or warnings i should know being in the market for 8mm drives.
- >
- > Thanx in advance,
- >
- If your not set on getting an 8mm, IBM sells a 1/4" tape drive which
- uses QIC-1000 tapes, and can store upto 1.2MB per cartridge. It has a
- 300KB/sec data transfer rate, which is 50% faster than the previous 1/4"
- tape drive. When it was announced 9/22/92, it's list was about $2800.
- Here is some info I found:
- 7207-012
- --------
- Announced 9/22/92
- Capacity (MB) 1.2
- Transfer rate (KB/sec) 300
- ECC (Error Correction Code) Yes
- Downward compatibility Yes
- US Price $2800
- Price/MB $2.33
- Media (tape cartridge) IBM 1.2
- Media price (US) $67.95
- Media price/MB $0.06
-
- I'm not sure what factor the higher media price might have, but it sounds like
- it might be a lower cost alternative for you. Good luck.
- -ELiot
-
- > Ed Geraghty
- >
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