My long-suffering DDS-3 drive died today.  As in, when I opened the top to
see if I could remove an eaten tape, there were mechanism drive gears laying
about loose inside it.

I backup 3 Unix and 1 Mac OS X host, for a total of about 60GB.  Speed isn't
a real issue - the 1.4MB/s of the DAT was fast enough for my needs.

Reliability is important (which I suppose is a given in this subject).
Price is pretty important - the wife certainly won't consent to any
multi-thousand-dollar autoloaders.  I prefer to avoid IDE, and the old drive
was hanging off an U/W SCSI-3 adapter that's still in perfect shape.

Any suggestions for a solid drive for a small LAN?  I'm thinking of getting
an internal DDS-4 (so I can still use my DDS-3 tapes), but I can start over
with an entirely different format if the advantages are sufficient.
-- 
Kirk Strauser

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